Unknown USB device detected

[RayH]

There is a line in my VBoxSVC.log that says: 00:00:00.546001 USB: Unknown USB device detected (idVendor: 0x8087, idProduct: 0x07da). Please, report the idVendor and idProduct to virtualbox.org.

So, I am reporting it.

[Socratis]

According to the ​Linux.org's USB IDs database, the vendorID is identified as "Intel", but even they don't even have the deviceID. Since (AFAIK) VirtualBox depends on that file to identify the USB devices, that's why most probably you saw that message.

I'm not sure if that "warning" should be be there in the "VBoxSVC.log" to begin with. Maybe the developers should consider removing it altogether. It seems too ... drastic, and they can't (in reality) do anything about it. ;)

[Klaus Espenlaub]

It's still useful to get occasional reports. Of course this isn't a serious issue, it's just that the usb.ids list we use when building VirtualBox didn't know about this device. So we can take it as a reminder to pick up a new usb.ids file every now and then.

If you can tell us what USB device it is, then we could provide the information upstream to improve the database. You should only get the message when the device itself doesn't give human readable strings in the USB device descriptor - or does the VirtualBox GUI (or VBoxManage list usbhost) give a model description?

[Socratis]

Replying to klaus:

It's still useful to get occasional reports

I have a 1/2 dozen of those. Do you guys post it upstream? I've always wondered how that process works. And if it's a process that relies on end-users, how come it's not more "publicized"?

So we can take it as a reminder to pick up a new usb.ids file every now and then

A ticket as a reminder? What about "curl/wget usb.ids" in the build script? Or a daily task? Always up to date! ;)