You may want to go online to the Microsoft Answers forums for help with this. There is a forum for Windows XP. Just tell them you have a system that does not recognize the USB devices and tell them what you see as symptoms in hardware and Device Manager. I would avoid the topic of having it installed on a virtual machine and see how the troubleshooting goes.
> -----Original Message----- > From: Cliff Scott [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Thursday, October 18, 2012 9:19 PM > To: Community mailing list of VirtualBox users > Subject: Re: [VBox-users] Printing from Vbox w/XP on OSx > > ** Reply to message from "John A. Wallace" <[email protected]> on > Thu, 18 Oct 2012 12:11:59 -0500 > > John, > > I suspect when it'll read a USB stick the printer problem will go away. > That said, I'm not sure what I can change to make the USB work. I did a > normal install and usually XP, at least on a stand alone system, > installs all the USB stuff by default so it should all work. In my > situation it sees that something has been attached to the USB port, but > for some reason can't determine what it is. Pretty strange. I guess > I'll just have to play with it and see if there is an issue with the > VBox/XP interface. If you have any ideas please share them as I'm not a > Win or a Vbox expert. I've tried the "find new hardware" and it doesn't > find anything. I suppose I can remove all the USB stuff in the System > Hardware page and let it find it all again. I've had that work on some > other problems in the past. > > I'll report any success. > > Cliff > > > Cliff, > > > > It's good you found the general USB problem. For sure you need to get > > your system configured for recognizing USB devices properly, and then > > you can focus on the printer. Start with the simpler USB drive, which > > I know XP Home Edition can do. > > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > > From: Cliff Scott [mailto:[email protected]] > > > Sent: Thursday, October 18, 2012 12:14 AM > > > To: Community mailing list of VirtualBox users > > > Subject: Re: [VBox-users] Printing from Vbox w/XP on OSx > > > > > > ** Reply to message from "John A. Wallace" <[email protected]> on > > > Wed, 17 Oct 2012 22:04:46 -0500 > > > > > > Hi John, > > > > > > Printer is ok itself. Hovering over the USB icon at the bottom of > > > the VM window shows that the printer is connected, but from within > > > XP it only sees it as an Unknown Device. I have not checked if it > is > > > available to the host, but I would suspect not since the icon > > > indicates it is connected. It should just plug & play. > > > > > > Actually, I just verified that the problem is not just with > > > printing, but it will not recognize a USB Stick either. Very > > > strange. Almost as if there is a basic problem in XP. > > > > > > Cliff > > > > > > > Also check some of the basics on the printer to make sure it has > > > > ink, etc., and that none of the service lights indicate a > problem. > > > > > > > > When you connected the usb 2.0 driver button, did you also create > > > > a filter to specify this particular device? When doing so, you > > > > should have seen a green cross on the usb connector and, clicking > > > > it, it would display all the presently attached USB devices on > your host. > > > > Also, the Help file said that when your guest is properly > > > > configured with a usb device, this device should no longer be > > > > available to the host after you have started the guest. Is that > > > > what you observed when starting the guest? I mean, did the host > (I > > > > am not a Mac user) indicate that it now no longer had control of > > > > the device? Perhaps an > > > audible beep about a lost connection? > > > > > > > > I have a USB printer connected to XP Pro on a VM, and it works > > > > fine, but I did have to fiddle with it a bit initially and I am > > > > using a > > > Windows 7 host. > > > > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > > > > From: John A. Wallace [mailto:[email protected]] > > > > > Sent: Wednesday, October 17, 2012 9:49 PM > > > > > To: 'Community mailing list of VirtualBox users' > > > > > Subject: Re: [VBox-users] Printing from Vbox w/XP on OSx > > > > > > > > > > Cliff, hi. > > > > > > > > > > When you look at Printers and Faxes in WinXP, do you see the > > > printer > > > > > there? > > > > > Did you try running through the troubleshooting procedure in > XP? > > > > > Is this WinXP Pro or Home? > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > John > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > > > > > From: Cliff Scott [mailto:[email protected]] > > > > > > Sent: Thursday, October 11, 2012 2:58 PM > > > > > > To: Community mailing list of VirtualBox users > > > > > > Subject: [VBox-users] Printing from Vbox w/XP on OSx > > > > > > > > > > > > I have VBox on a Mac laptop with OSx 10.7 (Lion) with an XP > > > guest. > > > > > > I don't seem to be able to figure out how to print from XP to > > > > > > a printer connected to the Mac USB port. I have enabled the > > > > > > USB filter for the printer (Vbox recognized it right away), > > > > > > turned on USB and the 2.0 driver in the Vbox settings for the > > > > > > XP guest, but XP for some reason doesn't connect to it. I've > > > > > > even installed the printer software in XP and set it to > connect to USB, but no go. > > > > > > Surely someone has figured out how to do this. I must be > > > > > > missing something obvious. Could > > > > > someone > > > > > > open my eyes on this? Thanks. > > > > > > > > > > > > Cliff > > ----------------------------------------------------------------------- > ------- > Everyone hates slow websites. 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