How to make smooth USB access available to Virtualbox vm

[Lowell Gilbert]

Manish Jain <bourne.identity at hotmail.com> writes:

> Sounds crazy that USB is as good as missing from a supposed 
> virtualization solution.

Unfortunately, USB requires privileged access to memory. Other
peripherals don't do this, leaving it to OS driver code. In addition to
being a huge potential source of bugs, it's a security nightmare.

You might have better luck with a different brand of USB storage.