From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1QQ8hp-0003o4-TN for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sat, 28 May 2011 01:52:46 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id ACBDA1C007; Sat, 28 May 2011 01:51:03 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-yi0-f53.google.com (mail-yi0-f53.google.com [209.85.218.53]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7C52C1C007 for ; Sat, 28 May 2011 01:51:03 +0000 (UTC) Received: by yia25 with SMTP id 25so1315091yia.40 for ; Fri, 27 May 2011 18:51:03 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to :subject:references:in-reply-to:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; bh=AcdGKAE8nRPX5h5U4h+RgkW9Rhp3EzwB4NTOhGMUs1Y=; b=c2xzkwtvaqt3uQN9juWc1rbQS60YdstsZWWmeNEqT3W2uXG9kAkz+mg+C8Kt37/4ka IlJ3iL83tU6BYLR9GdY+1IpYehetQRL/qFvb16lRf5PCSL5cZUudJgG+UGuRqbwc9Pqa EzxufIaYq+jjlh+BXqNG+/Xgal/qpWT8WswPs= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references :in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=gGyensaQv0SAgv/67RFKF3cDY6iSHsZC/IKQfoxrzcXkul8umqZjMqSeNBM7kx3qUr N9c7wio8w8VoWnISk0C47h96+rED5hoHTfnEFy3G4ELMe8t5hMsTCREwMaS7BtR0rv89 MCTyUsEZQNqAU4YGv5r5St4+jP+wmd3d4hQ4Q= Received: by 10.236.170.138 with SMTP id p10mr3775320yhl.175.1306547462971; Fri, 27 May 2011 18:51:02 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [192.168.10.4] (c-68-32-248-84.hsd1.tn.comcast.net [68.32.248.84]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id f65sm929292yhn.25.2011.05.27.18.51.00 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Fri, 27 May 2011 18:51:01 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <4DE0576C.7030007@gmail.com> Date: Fri, 27 May 2011 22:01:16 -0400 From: Valmor de Almeida User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.2.17) Gecko/20110516 Lightning/1.0b3pre Lanikai/3.1.10 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: [UNSOLVED]Re: [gentoo-user] usb support in virtualbox References: <4DDD7E9E.5090202@gmail.com> <4DDD94B7.60802@gmail.com> <4DDDEADF.4030308@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <4DDDEADF.4030308@gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: X-Archives-Hash: 580a898dbdc8157d15462036ec7d10a5 On 05/26/2011 01:53 AM, Valmor de Almeida wrote: > On 05/25/2011 07:45 PM, Valmor de Almeida wrote: >> On 05/25/2011 06:14 PM, Mark Knecht wrote: >> [snip] >>>> >>>> For the record. >>>> >>>> Tried and it is very nice. The 4.0.6 version with extpack uses the GPL >>>> vbox (source). >>>> >>>> All usb devices on the gentoo host are visible on a Windows7 guest. The >>>> problem I am facing now is that the Windows7 virtual machine tries to >>>> install drivers for the USB devices and it fails. Not sure what is going >>>> on... It may be an issue with USB 1.0 versus 2.0? >>>> >>>> >>>> -- >>>> Valmor >>> >>> Hi Valmor, >>> Good to know it at least gets you 1 step further in the right direction. >>> >>> As for Win 7 installing USB drivers is there an option to not >>> install it automatically and then you go look for the right driver and >>> install it by hand? >>> >>> One other possibility might be that either Linux or another VM is >>> claiming the device and hence it's not responding correctly to the >>> driver install. i typically run 3 VMs every day - 2 VMPLayer/XP and 1 >>> virtualbox/Win 7. I've noted that I have to be a little careful to >>> ensure the VMs don't interfere with each other WRT USB devices. >>> >>> Good luck figuring it out. Please post back if you find interesting info. >>> >>> Cheers, >>> Mark >>> >> >> I think you are in the right track as far as a race between host and >> guest for claiming the device. It is not the driver installation that is >> the problem. The driver is installed and Windows7 says it is the latest >> driver. The problem is that at the end of the installation W7 tries to >> mount/start the device and that is when things do not work. The status >> of the device is listed as >> >> This device cannot start. (Code 10) >> >> There is quite a bit on the web on the "Code 10" error. Still >> investigating... >> >> fdisk -l on the gentoo host lists the device if the guest is not >> running. As soon as the guest boots, the device is not listed by fdisk >> -l, this means that things are at least going in the right direction. >> The vbox manual says that the device should be hidden from the host once >> the guest gets a hold of it. >> >> >> >> -- >> Valmor > > After much digging, no success. Apparently it is an ongoing bug. > > http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=364717 > > When virtualbox is installed with the extension USE flag it pulls the > oracle extension package and the USB interface on the Virtualbox manager > is supposed to present a USB 2.0 box. This does not show up. Therefore > it appears that USB 2.0 devices can't start on the VM guest since only > USB 1.0 is enabled. > > No luck so far but it is pretty close to be resolved. All USB devices I > have tried are identified by the Win7 VM guest and the drivers correctly > installed. It is only the startup that fails. > > That is all folks. > > -- > Valmor Those involved in dealing with the bug link above have concluded: This bug can stay confirmed as it's quite obvious that USB-2 doesn't work: So no USB-2 support on >=virtualbox-4.0.6 at the moment. -- Valmor