MTS #2: Virtualbox USB access in Ubuntu

Another Note-To-Self: Things I do not use often enough to remember so I’ll blog them as Note-To-mySelf.

To be able to use USB devices in Oracle Virtualbox there are a couple or prerequisites to setup:

The first being that USB support is only available through the Virtualbox binaries downloaded from virtualbox.org. The OpenSource Edition within Ubuntu does not support USB usage.
The second is that when your USB devices are greyed out in the VirtualBox menus than your user account is most likely not part of the VboxUsers group.
Make sure that you’re part of that group (do not forget to re-login) and you can enjoy USB devices within your virtual machine.