On Sat, 22 Nov 2014 11:54:04 -0600 Bigby James <bigby.james@crepcran.com> wrote:
How much data are you trying to transmit? Based on your messages, I'm guessing you have an iPod Touch or iPhone and you're using VB to manage a music library. Calling VirtualBox broken because its USB implementation doesn't play well with Apple's DRM model is unfair, and your single experience doesn't amount to an objectively broken package. In any case, Arch follows upstream. Occasionally users experience setbacks. That's just the nature of the game.
As I already pointed out, I tried to upgrade iOS of an iPad 2 by USB. I don't listen to music by crappy lossy codecs, anyway, using an USB mouse and transmitting an app, a PDF or text file, a few pics does work, but could also require a restart of the host. Everything works fine after downgrading virtualbox. I'm not the only one and it's not the first package that is broken and btw. I don't use any DRM crap and I dislike Apple myself, I won the iPad, however, the USB issue is _not_ caused by Apple, virtualbox is broken. You should read all threads about this issue and you should read them completely instead of guessing. Regards, Ralf