Hello Graham,
Graham Campbell wrote:
> Specifically, I created a new user and added it to the vboxusers
> group.I executed "newgrp vboxusers" and then "VirtualBox". I created a
> new VM and added a filter for the USB->Serial adapter that I had
> attached. I start the new machine and the entry for the serial adapter
> is grayed out!
> Can somebody point me to all the things that have to be checked out?
> Could it be the host machine locking out access?
I won't point out all the things that could go wrong here, but try
checking that your user really is in that group ("groups") and then
logging out and back in again, as in Linux group membership doesn't
really take effect until then, even if "groups" says you are in.
Regards,
Michael
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