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

[Peter Bauer]

Hi,

I have also issues with USB devices on Windows 7 32Bit guest. The
devices I use are mainly USB Serial COM ports. On top of that a
proprietary binary protocol is used.

The applications that communicate with the USB Serial COM ports are
constantly having problems reading and writing data.

Installed:
virtualbox 4.3.14-3
virtualbox-guest-iso 4.3.14-1
virtualbox-guest-modules 4.3.14-5
virtualbox-host-modules 4.3.14-5
Linux localhost 3.16.1-1-ARCH #1 SMP PREEMPT Thu Aug 14 07:40:19 CEST
2014 x86_64 GNU/Linux

Extension Pack 4.3.14r95030

With usbmon and wireshark I could see a lot of malformed USB packets.
I'm afraid I don't know enough to make an exact conclusion whats wrong
in detail.

I will try a downgrad from 4.3.14-3 to 4.3.12 and report again.




Am 04.08.2014 um 22:05 schrieb Ralf Mardorf:
> On Mon, 2014-08-04 at 20:15 +0100, Marco Monteiro wrote:
>> 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.
> 
> Hi Marco,
> 
> when the USB data transfer paused, the graphic performance and access to
> the VDI drive slowed down, for iTunes and other apps running on the XP
> guest. Performance for iTunes always is bad, but other apps usually run
> without issues. I always could shut down Windows, but sometimes much
> time was needed before I could use the menu. If you can't shutdown your
> guest, you could try to shut down the virtual machine by closing the
> VBox window, instead off killing the process.
> 
> I add an additional comment to my bug report.
> 
> "There isn't an issue for the USB mouse, but data transfer between VBox
> and an iPad2 is broken when I use 4.3.14. There aren't issues anymore,
> after I downgraded all packages to 4.3.12. The whole performance of Vbox
> is slower when syncing iTunes and an iPad with .14 and there are many
> unknown errors and timeouts, if you e.g. try to install 20 applications
> or more from iTunes running on the VBox guest to an iPad. Disconnecting
> the iPad's USB causes VBox to crash, if it is done without unchecking
> the iPad in VBox's devices menu, this doesn't happen when using .12.
> 
> The used packages are virtualbox, virtualbox-host-dkms,
> virtualbox-extension-pack and I install the guest additions that fit to
> the installed version of virtualbox. Perhaps the culprit isn't the
> package virtualbox, it might be the package virtualbox-extension-pack,
> since it's needed for USB2 support." -
> https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/41424
> 
> JFTR everything already was ok, when I only downgraded the package
> virtualbox, disabled USB2 support and kept the 4.3.14 guest additions.
> In the mean time I downgraded all packages and add the 4.3.12 guest
> additions, so with the outdated version I now can use USB2 again.
> 
> Perhaps you have the time confirm my bug report.
> 
> Regards,
> Ralf
>