On Thu, Apr 16, 2009 at 11:18:17AM +0100, Armindo Silva wrote: > > On Tue, Apr 14, 2009 at 10:13 PM, Chris G <[email protected]> wrote: > > Is it possible to set up VirtualBox so that a USB device is *always* > > connected through to a guest machine? I need to do this so that the > > software update process on a Nokia phone works correctly. The > > software update process resets the phone during the update and that > > disconnects the USB which makes the software update think it has been > > unplugged. > > > You just to add a filter for that device on Settings->USB of the VM in > question. > > Cheers > > Armindo > > PS: all this info is on the manual :)
That doesn't work and a little Googling showed my why. When the Nokia software disconnects and reconnects the phone's USB connection it changes the Product ID (and other bits and pieces maybe) so that the USB filter doesn't allow it to reconnect. The fix is to remove everything except the Name: and Vendor ID: entries from the USB filter, the update software then manages its multiple reconnects without a problem. Thanks for coming back anyway, it helped me search more specifically in Google. It might be useful to add something about this specific problem to the documentation (or a FAQ somewhere) as there were a *lot* of hits on Google about the problem but not all that many where the solution had been found. -- Chris Green _______________________________________________ vbox-users mailing list [email protected] http://vbox.innotek.de/mailman/listinfo/vbox-users
