[Solved-Bug]VirtualBox 4 OSE + Extpack - one USB device grey

lyallp · Last edited by lyallp on Wed Jan 19, 2011 12:29 am; edited 1 time in total

I just installed VirtualBox 4 ebuild on amd64.
Well done.
I did find that I had to re-boot to get VirtualBox to actually run, it failed to start with a COM object creation failure.

However, I have a minor issue.
I installed the extpack to obtain USB capability.

I can plug in a USB key, a USB mouse, both of which I can 'check' such that they are attached to a running vm, and they work. (it is quite interesting having a mouse connected, the mouse works, but the pointer is not shown).

However, if I plug in my ActivIdentity USB SIM, it shows in the USB device list, but is greyed out.

I have tweaked my udev rules such that pcscd daemon is not run if VirtualBox is running, in case I want to attach the key to the VM, rather than to the host, but to no effect, the key remains 'grey'.

I have VirtualBox 3 on a different x86 gentoo machine, which works as expected. I can attach the device to my VM.

Any suggestions?
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zalx · n00b Joined: 07 Apr 2007 Posts: 12

Try this and reboot:

lyallp · Posted: Mon Jan 17, 2011 5:01 am Post subject:

Thanks, but no good.
My user is already a member of the usb group.
In fact, my user is a member of

Additionally, you don't need to reboot after changing the group membership, just logout/login of the affected user.

As I indicated, other devices such as keyboards, mice, etc, show up and are 'attachable' to the VM, just the ActivIdentity USB SIM shows as grey.
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lyallp · Posted: Wed Jan 19, 2011 12:28 am Post subject:

Solved.

Problem is that VirtualBox 4.0.0, with Oracle Extpack (to give USB 2) only forwards USB 2 devices to the VM if it is directly connected to the host, if you plug the device into a USB 2 HUB, the VM only sees 1.1 devices.

It would appear that the ActivIdentity USB SIM is USB 2.0 only, so is not workable with the VM in 1.1 mode.

This USB issue was also seen in this post.

I have raised a bug at VirtualBox.org http://www.virtualbox.org/ticket/8112
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