Unable to include USB HID devices

[fel1x]

I want to use a USB device which is a combination of a mass storage device and a smartcard reader. Similiary I want to use a USB device which is Mouse/Keyboard/Headset. All have in common that they are USB HID (Human Input) devices (Class = 0x03).

I am in a Windows XP Guest from a Mac OS X Host: The HID are greyed out when I click the USB icon under the running guest. Creating a device filter or a generic device filter does not help. Starting VirtualBox as root (to resolve possible permission issues (like under Linux)) does not resolve the problem either.

The device state is unavaible.

# sudo VBoxManage list usbhost |tail -n10
UUID:               2587e29b-4e2b-42a4-803b-84869cf42035
VendorId:           0x0d46 (0D46)
ProductId:          0x4081 (4081)
Revision:           1.23 (0123)
Manufacturer:       KOBIL Systems
Product:            mIDentity L
SerialNumber:       SN_S_071106216
Address:            p=0x4081;v=0x0d46;s=0x00003cdd48524c60;l=0x24100000
Current State:      Unavailable

Adding support for USB HID would be a major feature because neither Parallels or VMWare support it very well. Furthermore many USB devices are marked wrongly as a USB HID, as are USB U3 sticks and there are many legit use cases of USB HID devices (Wacom Tablets, Headset, etc).

Please fix this, thanks :)

[fel1x]

problem is fixed in version 2.1.4

bug can be closed