On Fri, Nov 28, 2008 at 05:54:15PM +0000, Chris G wrote: > On Fri, Nov 28, 2008 at 05:07:36PM +0000, Maurice Batey wrote: > > On Thu, 27 Nov 2008 18:46:20 +0000, Chris G wrote: > > > > > They just don't actually work > > > > I don't know about Ubuntu, but here on Mandriva the user needs to be > > a member of the 'vboxusers' and 'usb' groups. > > If not, I could not use some USB devices. > > > No, that's not the problem I'm sure, I've gone through all the > permissions bits. I'm more and more of the opinion that it's a > Windows XP problem. > > The USB devices appear in the VirtualBox devices mene and can be > selected so that they're visible to my Windows XP system, it's just > that they don't install successfully there. > I've found the cause of the problem. It's something to do with what Windows Update installs. I tried a clean install of a guest Windows XP and allowed full update to latest code, including SP3, and saw the symptoms I originally reported. The USB drivers refused to install with 'The data is invalid'. I then did yet *another* clean install of Windows XP but didn't allow any updates, this time the USB drivers install without problems.
So it's something that Windows Update installs (my *guess* would be SP3) that causes a problem with new USB devices. I think also it's probably purely a Windows problem and nothing at all to do with VirtualBox. -- Chris Green _______________________________________________ vbox-users mailing list vbox-users@virtualbox.org http://vbox.innotek.de/mailman/listinfo/vbox-users
