Toolbox container doesn’t work after installing VirtualBox

This note documents a vboxusb permissions issue that can stop a Toolbox container working after VirtualBox is installed.

File permissions issue

This issue is often caused by the vboxusb devices missing world read permissions.

sudo chmod o+rx /dev/vboxusb
sudo chmod o+rx /dev/vboxusb/**

I read that adding your user to the vboxusers group solves the problem as well; I’ll have to confirm this on my own machine.

sudo usermod -aG vboxusers $USER