[arch-general] FS#41424 - Virtualbox 4.3.14, USB doesn't work flawlessly

[Marco Monteiro]

I have experienced problems with USB also. My guest is Windows 8.1.
When I try to access the USB device from Windows, the access fails
and then everything inside the VM seems to start misbehaving. I cannot
properly shutdown the VM - I have to kill the VBox process.

If I don't try to use the USB device, everything works fine.

Cheers,
Marco


On Fri, Aug 1, 2014 at 1:15 PM, Ralf Mardorf <ralf.mardorf at rocketmail.com>
wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I experienced Virtualbox 4.3.14 x86_64 as broken, when I tried to sync
> an iPad2 with iTunes running on a XP SP3 guest. I only tested it with
> USB2 enabled, since it worked with 4.3.12.
>
> Usually I use the packages virtualbox, virtualbox-host-dkms,
> virtualbox-extension-pack and I add the guest additions, that fit to the
> used vbox version.
>
> Because I wasted much time with trying to use 4.3.14, I did an
> incomplete downgrade to 4.3.12 yet, since I'm short in time, but even
> with
>
> virtualbox 4.3.12-1
> virtualbox-host-dkms 4.3.12-1
> no extension pack, no USB2 and with wrong guest additions, version
> 4.3.14, I get rid of the issues.
>
> I will complete the downgrade on my machine ASAP and IMO the community
> packages should be downgraded for the repositories too.
>
> Do others experienced issues with Virtualbox 4.3.14 USB too?
>
> Since I'm short in time I only reported the bug to
> https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/41424
> I didn't find a related bug, just 4 completely other vbox bug reports.
>
> https://www.virtualbox.org/search?q=4.13.14&noquickjump=1&ticket=on
> results in "No matches found."
> https://www.virtualbox.org/search?q=usb&noquickjump=1&ticket=on
> gives tons of hits, no time to care about them right now
>
> Regards,
> Ralf
>