Unable to connect to USB device => Fixed in SVN/3.1.6

[cmeadows]

After upgrading to 3.1.4 I'm unable to connect to a SANSA FUSE through the USB connection. Downgrading back to 3.1.2 resolved the issue. Guest OS is Ubuntu 9.10. Host is OSX 10.5.7

[Rudolf Balada]

I'm seeing similar issue with Mac OS X 10.6.2 (Snow Leopard) host OS running Win 7 Pro 32-bit Guest OS. I was trying to attach Nokia 5800 and GemPlus smartcard reader to Win 7 guest and VirtualBox could not attach those devices. It also used to work under VirtualBox 3.1.2 and stopped working after an upgrade to 3.1.4. Downgrade to VirtualBox 3.1.2 resolved the issue.

It's just regular bug life cycle - release being marketed as a solution for a few regressions while (quietly) bringing some new. It looks like you can either sync an iPod under VirtualBox 3.1.4 or work with anything else under VirtualBox 3.1.2.

[Ramshankar Venkataraman]

Could you please provide information regarding how you're "attaching" the USB device (filters or hijacking manually?), what the VM config is (VBox.log), what error you get when you say "could not attach those devices".

[Rudolf Balada]

VBox.log

[Rudolf Balada]

Virtual machine's config xml

[Rudolf Balada]

Screenshot - USB devices list

[Rudolf Balada]

Screenshot - detected new network interfaces

[Rudolf Balada]

Screenshot - unable to attache Nokia 5800

[Rudolf Balada]

Screenshot - unable to attach Gemplus smartcard reader

[H. Dale McBane]

Replying to cmeadows:

After upgrading to 3.1.4 I'm unable to connect to a SANSA FUSE through the USB connection. Downgrading back to 3.1.2 resolved the issue. Guest OS is Ubuntu 9.10. Host is OSX 10.5.7

I have a similar problem with Mac OS X 10.6.2 as the host OS; either WinXPProSP3 32-bit , Win7 32-bit, or Debian5 64-bit as guest OSs and an SCM SCR 3310 USB Smart Card Reader.

Under 3.1.2, I was able to use the device with the three guest OSs mentioned above using the following procedure:

1. Connect the device to the host system.
2. Start VirtualBox, but not the VM.
3. Add a USB filter for the device to the VM (required only once).
4. Disconnect the device from the host system.
5. Start the VM.
6. Connect the device to the host system once the VM is running.

This procedure no longer works under 3.1.4. I have been unable to use the device on any guest OS under 3.1.4. I also downgraded to 3.1.2.

[Rudolf Balada]

Attached the VBox.log logfile, virtual machine's configuration xml file and a few screenshots for detailed idea of the messages.

My environment: Host OS: Mac OS X 10.6.2 (Snow Leopard), latest patches applied Guest OS: Windows 7 Ultimate 32bit, latest patches applied Guest extensions seem to be 3.0.6 (see vbox.log or xml config for details)

The virtual machine is configured to use filters (see xml config for details).

Steps to reproduce: #1 Start VirtualBox.app #2 Start the Windows 7 virtual machine #3 Login to Windows, wait for desktop to come up #4 physically plug in an USB device into Host HW USB port #5a In case it is the Nokia phone, a dialog about new network interface comes up #5b In case it's the Gemplus USB smartcard reader, nothing explicitly visual happens #6 either or both of those devices appear in USB devices list, enabled, but not check-marked (see screenshot) #7 click on either Nokia or Gemplus in the USB devices list menu and then Host OS native dialog appears saying that VirtualBox is not able to attach the USB device

I'm not able to reproduce this with VirtualBox 3.1.2, so this is a regression (pretty serious I would say).

I've checked out source code from public repo, but it does not build for me yet, so at this very moment I'm not able to determine the root cause.

[Rudolf Balada]

Replying to rbalada:

The virtual machine is configured to use filters (see xml config for details).

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#5a In case it is the Nokia phone, a dialog about new network interface comes up

[Commenting myself] From my point of view it looks like USB filters do not work (properly). The Mac OS X network interfaces dialog seems to support that, because the Nokia 5800 gets recognized by Host OS inplace of the Guest OS.

[Ramshankar Venkataraman]

This is a regression but it hasn't broken USB completely, you can still capture devices manually. Thanks for the report and it's been fixed and will part of the next release.

[Peter West]

I've got this problem with 3.1.4.r57640, when connecting phones to PC software.

How does "capture device manually" work? I can't find a reference to it in the User Manual. Where can I read about it?

[Ramshankar Venkataraman]

Capturing manual is choosing it from the devices menu after plugging in the device. Filtered capture on the other hand is setting up a filter on the host and -then- plugging in the device. It's probably not documented because ideally it should just be a developer level implementation detail.