On Monday, March 26, 2012 10:31:10 PM John Francis Lee wrote: > On 03/26/2012 10:14 PM, Gerard Arthus wrote: > > I assume you are running this on a Windows Box. Did you click on the > > USB icon > > The physical box boots linux, the virtual box boots windows... > clicking on Devices and then USB shows no devices available, as does > hovering over the little icon... I think there is something wrong > with interface between the Extensions and the VBox kernel modules on > this machine... both the machines are 64 bit AMD machines, although > the one with the problem is older. On the mcahine that does work > clicking on Devices|USB show actual devices on the USB and, and > clicking a check mark into the otherwise empty next to a device makes > is available. Then it show up on hovering over the little icon at the > bottom of the ms screen. > > I have uninstalled and re-installed both the Extensions and the Guest > additions repeatedly. Still no joy. > > -- > "This message may have been intercepted and read by U.S. government > agencies including the FBI, CIA, and NSA and/or the present government > of Thailand without notice or warrant or knowledge of sender or > recipient." > > John Francis Lee > 246/3 Thanon Kaew Wai > Mueang Chiangrai 57000 > Thailand Did you select the usb devices in the VirtualBox manager before installing your guest? They are under device manager GUI, Settings. Enable them ther, before clicking the green arrow. I have never had them work if they were not set there. Its a check box. On the right side you can edit the filters, add a new filter and several other options by click the little usb icons on the right side. If you hold mouse over icon it will tell you what they do.
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