Opened 6 years ago
Closed 6 years ago
#18461 closed defect (wontfix)
Keyboard USB stealing from host box into a virtual box -> won't fix
| Reported by: | NetVicious | Owned by: | |
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| Component: | USB | Version: | VirtualBox 6.0.4 |
| Keywords: | Cc: | ||
| Guest type: | other | Host type: | Windows |
Description
Setup a virtual box which should steal the USB of your keyboard (I did it without knowing it because it has a special name).
You will hear the sound of USB disconnected on the host box and it will only work on the guest as it was setup.
My problem was the guest had a bad setup and it showed a "Fatal: Could not read from the boot medium! System halted." And this point Virtualbox doesn't frees the usb keyboard and I don't have any option to recover the Host because the hanged guest was the temporary propietary of the USB keyboard.
I know this it's difficult to solve, maybe a warning when selecting a HID device, maybe releasing the USB devices after a fatal crash, ....
Change History (2)
comment:1 by , 6 years ago
comment:2 by , 6 years ago
| Resolution: | → wontfix |
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| Status: | new → closed |
| Summary: | Keyboard USB stealing from host box into a virtual box → Keyboard USB stealing from host box into a virtual box -> won't fix |
Not something we plan to fix, I'm afraid.
Just remove the USB filter, and you should be all set. There's no safe way to predict all possible user unrecoverable errors/situations, methinks...