[PLUG] Virtual box does not see usb

Denis Heidtmann denis.heidtmann at gmail.com
Fri Aug 21 22:35:54 UTC 2015


On Thu, Aug 20, 2015 at 10:40 PM, John Jason Jordan <johnxj at comcast.net>
wrote:

> On Thu, 20 Aug 2015 20:15:53 -0700
> King Beowulf <kingbeowulf at gmail.com> dijo:
>
> >On 08/20/2015 06:39 PM, Denis Heidtmann wrote:
> >> I have successfully migrated to 14.04 on a new 1 T HD from 12.04 on
> >> an older 0.5T HD.  Vbox seems to run fine; all my installed programs
> >> are there.  A cursory look says that they are functional.  But I
> >> cannot access my printer.  It appears to be that VB does not find
> >> any USB devices.
>
> >Did you upgrade VirtualBox during the Ubuntu upgrade? I assume so.  You
> >will have to update the guest additions installation for the Win2k
> >guest.  Also, did you set before a USB filter to grab the USB printer?
> >You do this in the VB gui before you launch - the USB enable check box
> >might not be checked.
>
> This is an interesting dilemma. At last Sunday's Clinic a fellow came
> in who could not get Windows in Virtualbox to see his USB stick.
> Checking my own installation of Virtualbox and my Windows 2000 and XP
> virtual machines, I discovered that they were also unable to see a USB
> stick. I do have the Guest Additions installed, as did he, and Enable
> USB was set in the VB GUI for the guest machines, but no go.
>
> Eventually we worked around his problem by creating a folder
> "USB_Stick" in his ~/ folder and having him manually mount the USB
> stick there instead of in /media. He had already shared his entire ~/
> folder with the virtual machine, so this let him access the contents.
> Unfortunately this workaround will not provide a solution if the
> problem is failing to see a printer.
>
> A more interesting question is why Guest Additions (installed from the
> Xubuntu 14.04 repos in my case) does not do what it is supposed to do,
> i.e., allow the guest machine to see USB devices.
>
> I might also add that I use my Windows 2000 machine on average about
> once a month. Just about every time I have to reinstall all the VB
> packages before the virtual machine will start. I get a popup with a
> command that is supposed to fix the problem, but it always fails with an
> error message (since forgotten). The only solution is to reinstall all
> the packages. The only reason I continue to use Virtualbox is that I am
> too lazy to try anything else.
> _______________________________________________
>
> I installed Vbox 4.3.10_ubuntu r93012 in 14.04. On the 12.04 system I had
4.2.6 r82870.  To get all my applications in Win 2000 from the old to the
new I copied VirtualBox VMs from the old drive to the new.  As I said,
everything works fine except USB.  I did nothing with the Guest Additions.
I see two messages when I launch W2k in VB:  "You have the auto capture
keyboad otion turned on.  This will cause the vm to automatically capture
the keyboard ..." and "The vm reports that the guest OS supports mouse
pointer integration.  This means that you do not need to capture the mouse
pointer ...
"
USB controller is enabled in Settings.

This issue may be different than the usb stick issue.  I have never had the
VB issue you mention.

-Denis



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