On Thu, Apr 30, 2009 at 04:56:11PM -0700, Gregory Nowak wrote: > On Thu, Apr 30, 2009 at 09:57:17PM +0100, Chris G wrote: > > I have just upgraded to VirtualBox 2.2.2. > > - From 2.1.4 if I remember correctly, right? > Yes.
> > If I look in Device Manager I see:- > > > > Universal Serial Bus Controllers > > Standard OpenHCD USB Host Controller > > USB Root Hub > > > > Which is OK, no problems, but I *also* get another entry:- > > > > Other Devices > > Universal Serial Bus (USB) Controller > > > > This one fails to install correctly and has the dreaded yellow ! > > beside it. > > > > What's going on? I've not had this sort of problem before. Why am I > > getting that unwanted/unnecessary extra USB controller? If I > > uninstall it then the next time I boot the XP guest it tries to > > install it again and fails. > > If you would have looked at the changelog from 2.1.4 to 2.2.0, you > would have seen that the ehci usb 2.0 controller is now enabled by > default for new machines. So, disable the usb 2.0 ehci controller in > your new vm, and you should be ok. In regards to xp, I thought that xp > supports the ehci controller out of the box, but I guess it doesn't, > or at least not in your case anyway for some reason. > That's the problem, thanks! I guess I must have a really old/original XP Home CD which doesn't support USB 2.0 EHCI. > > > > In addition the XP guest doesn't 'see' any USB devices that I capture. > > My memory may be playing tricks on me, and this might not apply to > GNU/Linux hosts, but I seem to remember that when upgrading vbox on a > windows host in the past, I had to plug a usb device in, unplug it > after the host recognized it, and plug it back in, and it would then > be picked up by the guest. Hth maybe. > It was just the USB 2.0 support from VirtualBox that stopped *anything* working. With the EHCI controller disabled in VirtualBox everything works fine. I set up the new/pristine XP machine to try and diagnose my problems with a Garmin Nuvi SatNav. My 'working' XP guest has problems installing *any* new USB device now, it seemed to go wrong when it was upgraded to Service Pack 3, I always get a message about drivers not being installed "The Data is invalid". -- Chris Green _______________________________________________ vbox-users mailing list [email protected] http://vbox.innotek.de/mailman/listinfo/vbox-users
