On Sunday 23 August 2009 06:56:31 am Joep L. Blom wrote: > Hi, > I'm relatively new to using virtual box and I have a problem with USB > ports in a guest W'98 XP.. > Of course I read the manual and added myself to the group "vboxusers" > and expected to see an external harddisk - connected via USB - and an > external device (weatherstation) also connected to USB. However, no > external device is detected and the device menu gives as USB-ports the > name of the device - I have no filters installed as "unknown device..." > ... being 3 numbers separated by a :(double dot?). > With lsusb I get: "Bus 003 Device 005: ID 1130:6801 Tenx Technology, > Inc.", indicating the system recognizes the device. > The system: AMD Phenom II 910 4 GB memory Ubuntu jaunty (9.04). > > I can't understand why the guest OS doesn't see the USB device(s). > Can anybody help me out? > Thanks in advance > Joep > > > _______________________________________________ > vbox-users mailing list > [email protected] > http://vbox.innotek.de/mailman/listinfo/vbox-users Did you enable the USB devices under Settings in the GUI Vbox Manager, before starting the Guest XP system?
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