Opened 14 years ago
Last modified 9 years ago
#5738 closed defect
Error in opening a USB flash drive in "Devices" of Virtual Box guest of Windows Vista host — at Initial Version
| Reported by: | Octavio Tourinho | Owned by: | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Component: | USB | Version: | VirtualBox 3.1.0 |
| Keywords: | kernel mode device driver | Cc: | |
| Guest type: | Windows | Host type: | Windows |
Description
When trying to open a USB flash drive in the Devices menu item of a VirtualBox guest of a Windows Vista Host one gets the following message:
Error: USB device is busy. Result code: E_INVALIDARG (0x80070057) Component: HostUSBDevice Interface: IHostUSBDevice {173b4b44-d268-4334-a00d-b6521c9a740a} Caller: IConsole {6375231a-c17c-464b-92cb-ae9e128d71c3}
In short, VirtualBox is unable to capture USB device.
I suspect that the reason can be found in item 3.10 of the VirtualBox "Help":
3.10. USB support ... "on windows hosts a kernel mode device driver provides USB proxy support" ...
However, since Windows Vista does NOT allow kernel mode device drivers, I suspect that USB support is being broken by Vista blocking the loading of the driver.
