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BuzzPCSOS Thank you very much for confirming the USB problem.

I was hoping that @Staudey could help. I have no idea how long a ticket takes to be processed in the issue tracker and I need the VMs for my daily work (embedded software development).

      Wini-Buh Not sure if it would also make USB connected devices like printers and scanners fail too.
      Did not try that side of it.
      I have skimmed a few troubleshooting guides on the VirtualBox forum regarding this issue.
      As a result I have tried:-
      Reloading vboxusers credentials and restarting the host PC.
      Downloading VirtualBox Extension Pack 7.0.14 and installing it to the host PC.
      Restarting the virtual PC.
      Restarting the host PC.
      Unless I have missed something (likely) the only thing left to try is uninstalling the program and then reinstalling. I am guessing that /home/username/.config/VirtualBox/ would need to be deleted as well. I am going to avoid doing that for the time being as my setup is running rather well apart from the USB issue and maybe another solution will emerge.
      If it is any consolation the lost USB issue for version 7.0.14 seems to be being noticed on a number of other distros so it is unlikely to be just a Solus problem.

          Wini-Buh I have no idea how long a ticket takes to be processed in the issue tracker and I need the VMs for my daily work

          The staffs will get back to you as soon as they can. They are preoccupied though right now with python upgrade, and critical mesa problem. If you really need a fix right now, maybe a new VM Or even different OS would help you right now. Or maybe you can rollback(eopkg hs and then sudo eopkg hs -t xxx) untill the problem disappear. Did you have snapshot of your VM? Maybe you can recover that? None of this is ideal I imagine but you gotta what you gotta do. Cheers!

              BuzzPCSOS Thank you for your answer. I tried a lot things... Uninstall and install of the whole Virtualbox stuff. Deleting the ~/.config/VirtualBox . I also uninstalled the whole Solus VirtualBox packages and installed the original packages from the VirtualBox download side... Also tried to going back to the previous VirtualBox version. All with the same result. Next I' will tryout the developer snapshot, because I read a posting, that there a USB problem is solved. If that doesn't helps, then I will switch to VMWare temporary.

                alfisya Will invest another evening, and if that not brings any solution, I switch temporary to VMWare until the problem is solved (have already some knowledge with it).

                    Wini-Buh If you only need to access the contents of a USB VirtualBox will let you mount it in the Storage settings.
                    Good luck

                      I also need this function. I use VM's for windows apps that I must use and some of those require a USB device which I can see but now are all greyed out. I did work before just not sure which update broke it. Is there an easy way to roll back the kernel as I would of thought that would be where the issue is

                      OK rolled back right to Kernel 6.6.12-271-1 and virtualbox 7.0.14-296-1 and USB is back. Is there a way to hold these two but update everything else?

                      Nah, it actually had nothing to do with the kernel and virtualbox versions. It was an incompatibility with glibc 2.39 and systemd 254. I've cherry-picked the fix.

                        awesome thanks for that :-) and those are both things I would not of looked at haha

                        ReillyBrogan Thank you very much. That solved the USB problems with VirtualBox... Now the JTAG emulators are all reachable again.