id,summary,reporter,owner,description,type,status,component,version,resolution,keywords,cc,guest,host
12979,Device Serial Number Encoding corrupts Vbox file,Consequences,,"Oddly, I added the device and this problem didn't show up for a couple of days. Error is as follows:
{{{
PCDATA invalid Char value 25.
Location: '/home/kcgtester/VirtualBox VMs/Windows 7 Base/Windows 7 Base.vbox', line 240 (25), column 116.
/build/buildd/virtualbox-4.1.12-dfsg/src/VBox/Main/src-server/MachineImpl.cpp[707] (nsresult Machine::registeredInit()).
Result Code: 
NS_ERROR_FAILURE (0x80004005)
Component: 
VirtualBox
Interface: 
IVirtualBox {c28be65f-1a8f-43b4-81f1-eb60cb516e66}
}}}


And the line from the VBox file is as follows:
{{{
<DeviceFilter name=""POSH Mfg.Ltd. POSH MX5USBKB [0100]"" active=""true"" vendorId=""0980"" productId=""9040"" revision=""0100"" manufacturer=""POSH Mfg.Ltd."" product=""POSH MX5USBKB "" serialNumber=""8&#xFF;f0W17&amp;C"" remote=""0""/>
}}}
It's obviously something wrong with the serialnumber field. VBox file is attached.

Host is Ubuntu 12.04 x64 and guest is Win7.",defect,closed,other,VirtualBox 4.1.12,fixed,"pcdata, invalid, char, unaccessible",,Windows,Linux