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I want to use my pendrive on Arch Linux that is currently on VirtualBox. My host system is Windows 10.
I've already added a USB device filter, but Arch doesn't see any USB disk. When I try to connect with this pendrive other way: clicking on the USB cable icon on bottom-right corner and choosing my device, it says:
USB device is busy with the previous request
I suppose that my pendrive is used by Windows and that's why it's "busy", but I have no idea how to make it available.
Any ideas?
I've encountered the same problem after upgrading from VirtualBox 2.2.2 to 3.1.6, and regrettably rebooting had no effect. However, after searching for a long time, I found the solution on the VirtualBox forum:
With VirtualBox shut down, remove the USB device from your host. Then restart VirtualBox, start the virtual machine, and then reattach the USB device. Now, VirtualBox recognizes the devices.
Note: I did the test with Windows Vista and Windows 7.
As often I found my answer while writing up the question. Posted it anway so others might benefit.
Turns out the issue wasn't that Linux didn't recognize the device, as I intially thought, but simply that my user didn't have enough permissions to access USB devices in general. Running
usermod -a -G vboxusers username
as suggested by Virtualbox, and then logging in and out, got it working.
Best Answer
You need to install the VirtualBox Guest Additions, you may need to install virtualbox-guest-utils and your corresponding virtualbox-guest-modules (please check this part of the arch awesome wiki )
You have also to check whether your username is part of the group vboxusers.
Last thing, you may want to check if USB 2 (or 3) is being supported by your hypervisor otherwise you have to install an extension pack, please refer to this part of the wiki