On 03/26/2012 06:23 PM, John Francis Lee wrote:
> On 03/27/2012 01:35 AM, upscope wrote:
>> 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.
>>>
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>> 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.
>>
>> Hope this helps you.
> That's where my problem lies, I believe. When I first attempted that
> drill, VBox complained that it could not deal with USB... The Extensions
> were not installed. So I went and got the Extensions, and after several
> false starts of double-clicking the Extensions files... which silently
> failed... I discovered the 'File|Extensions' mode of installation and
> used that. Vbox claimed success... but I still get the original error in
> 'enabling USB'...
>
> Result Code: NS_ERROR_FAILURE (0x00004005)
> Component: Host
> Interface: IHost {dab4a2b8-c735-4f08-94fc-9bec84182e2f}
> Callee: IMachine {5eaa9319-62fc-4b0a-843c-0cb1940f8a91}
>
> So the problem seems to me to be with the Extensions pack and the rest
> of the VM software... it installs 'successfully' but doesn't work on 64
> bit debian 6.0, and further, causes a problem with the Guest additions
> installation under ms xp...
>
> szAppName : VBoxService.exe szAppVer : 4.1.10.0
> szModName : VBoxService.exe szModVer : 4.1.10.0 offset : 0001e135
>
> I assume the problems are related.
>
> No such problem under ubuntu 11.40. It just works.
>
> Thanks for all the help. Still no joy, though.
>
USB works just fine for Debian hosts and guests on all kernels.
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