[PLUG] Virtual box does not see usb

[Denis Heidtmann]

I have successfully migrated to 14.04 on a new 1 T HD from 12.04 on an
older 0.5T HD.  Vbox seems to run fine; all my installed programs are
there.  A cursory look says that they are functional.  But I cannot access
my printer.  It appears to be that VB does not find any USB devices.
Anybody have any ideas why this is happening?  Do I need to enable the USB
2.0 (EHCI) Controller?  I did not in Vbox on my 12.04 system. (The version
of VB is more recent on 14.04 than on 12.04)

Thanks,
-Denis


household at R2D5:~$ vboxmanage list vms
"Win 2k sp2" {7e3d8557-90c4-4128-8009-643bef4dc045}

household at R2D5:~$ vboxmanage list usbhost
Host USB Devices:

<none>

household at R2D5:~$ lsusb
Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
Bus 004 Device 003: ID 05e3:ffe2 Genesys Logic, Inc.
Bus 004 Device 002: ID 1241:1177 Belkin F8E842-DL Mouse
Bus 004 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 001 Device 002: ID 03f0:c611 Hewlett-Packard
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
Bus 003 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub