Virtualbox-ose - guest systems can't access USB after OS upgrade

[Mike Clarke]

After upgrading my PC from FreeBSD 9.2 to 9.3 my VirtualBox guests are 
no longer able to access any of my USB devices. The USB section of the 
Devices menu shows a greyed out message "No USB device connected". I 
have Windows XP, FreeBSD and PCBSD guests and none of them can access 
USB devices.

I've re-installed  virtualbox-ose-kmod to be compatible with the new 
kernel and checked the usual things like group membership and devfs 
rules.

I was wondering if there might be an issue with virtualbox-ose on the 
newer OS releases?

curlew:/home/mike% uname -a
FreeBSD curlew.lan 9.3-RELEASE FreeBSD 9.3-RELEASE #0 r268512: Thu Jul 
10 23:44:39 UTC 2014     
root at snap.freebsd.org:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC  amd64

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curlew:/home/mike% pkg info virtualbox-ose-4.3.12_1
virtualbox-ose-4.3.12_1
Name           : virtualbox-ose
Version        : 4.3.12_1
Installed on   : Wed Aug 27 15:35:10 BST 2014
Origin         : emulators/virtualbox-ose
Architecture   : freebsd:9:x86:64
Prefix         : /usr/local
Categories     : emulators
Licenses       : GPLv2
Maintainer     : vbox at FreeBSD.org
WWW            : http://www.virtualbox.org/
Comment        : A general-purpose full virtualizer for x86 hardware
Options        :
        DBUS           : on
        DEBUG          : off
        GUESTADDITIONS : off
        MANUAL         : off
        NLS            : off
        PULSEAUDIO     : off
        PYTHON         : on
        QT4            : on
        UDPTUNNEL      : on
        VDE            : off
        VNC            : off
        VPX            : off
        WEBSERVICE     : off
        X11            : on
Shared Libs required:
        libxml2.so.2
        libpng15.so.15
        libiconv.so.3
        libcurl.so.7
        libXt.so.6
        libXmu.so.6
        libXinerama.so.1
        libXext.so.6
        libXcursor.so.1
        libX11.so.6
        libSDL-1.2.so.11
        libQtOpenGL.so.4
        libQtNetwork.so.4
        libQtGui.so.4
        libQtCore.so.4
        libGL.so.1
Shared Libs provided:
        VirtualBox.so
        VBoxXPCOMIPCC.so
        VBoxXPCOMC.so
        VBoxXPCOM.so
        VBoxVMMPreload.so
        VBoxVMM.so
        VBoxSharedFolders.so
        VBoxSharedCrOpenGL.so
        VBoxSharedClipboard.so
        VBoxSVCM.so
        VBoxSDL.so
        VBoxRT.so
        VBoxREM.so
        VBoxPython2_7.so
        VBoxPython.so
        VBoxOGLrenderspu.so
        VBoxOGLhosterrorspu.so
        VBoxOGLhostcrutil.so
        VBoxNetNAT.so
        VBoxNetDHCP.so
        VBoxKeyboard.so
        VBoxHostChannel.so
        VBoxHeadless.so
        VBoxGuestPropSvc.so
        VBoxGuestControlSvc.so
        VBoxDbg.so
        VBoxDDU.so
        VBoxDD2.so
        VBoxDD.so
        VBoxCAPI.so
        VBoxC.so
        VBoxAuthSimple.so
        VBoxAuth.so
        DBGCPlugInDiggers.so
Flat size      : 234MiB
Description    :
VirtualBox is a family of powerful x86 virtualization products for
enterprise as well as home use. Not only is VirtualBox an extremely
feature rich, high performance product for enterprise customers, it
is also the only professional solution that is freely available as
Open Source Software under the terms of the GNU General Public 
License.

WWW: http://www.virtualbox.org/
curlew:/home/mike% pkg info virtualbox-ose-kmod-4.3.12
virtualbox-ose-kmod-4.3.12                                                      
Name           : virtualbox-ose-kmod                                            
Version        : 4.3.12                                                         
Installed on   : Wed Aug 27 15:40:25 BST 2014                                   
Origin         : emulators/virtualbox-ose-kmod                                  
Architecture   : freebsd:9:x86:64                                               
Prefix         : /usr/local                                                     
Categories     : kld emulators                                                  
Licenses       : GPLv2                                                          
Maintainer     : vbox at FreeBSD.org                                               
WWW            : http://www.virtualbox.org/                                     
Comment        : VirtualBox kernel module for FreeBSD                           
Options        :                                                                
        DEBUG          : off                                                    
        VIMAGE         : off                                                    
Flat size      : 417KiB                                                         
Description    :                                                                
VirtualBox is a family of powerful x86 virtualization products for              
enterprise as well as home use. Not only is VirtualBox an extremely             
feature rich, high performance product for enterprise customers, it             
is also the only professional solution that is freely available as              
Open Source Software under the terms of the GNU General Public 
License.         
                                                                                
WWW: http://www.virtualbox.org/                     
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I've also tried Freebsd 10.0 and have the same problem.

-- 
Mike Clarke