#6482 closed defect (fixed)

USB disk drives greyed out in virtualbox 3.1.6

Reported by:	Jithin	Owned by:
Component:	USB	Version:	VirtualBox 3.1.6
Keywords:		Cc:
Guest type:	Windows	Host type:	Mac OS X

Description (last modified by Frank Mehnert)

I can see the attached USB devices bit they are all grayed out. I use Mac OS X 10.5.8.

I have 2 usb drives one Imation APOLLO 320 GB and other one Western Digital My Book 1 TB Though Virtualbox has detected these two they are greyed out and I cannot mount them

Attachments (2)

VBox.log (40.2 KB ) - added by Jithin 15 years ago.: virtual box log file
VBox.2.log (37.6 KB ) - added by James Moe 15 years ago.: Startup log for Windows XP VM

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Change History (5)

by Jithin, 15 years ago

Attachment:	VBox.log added

virtual box log file

comment:1 by James Moe, 15 years ago

I experience this as well.

opensuse 11.1 linux 2.6.31.12-0.2-desktop x86_64 Windows XP sp3 VirtualBox 3.1.8

Yes, I read the FAQ, and the manual, and the wiki, and searched the forum. I tried all of the suggestions mentioned in those places.

Detected USB devices are shown in the VM's USB popup but are grayed out as unavailable. This was not a problem on earlier versions of VBox; I believe the USB ports were available in v3.1.6, v3.1.4 for sure.

Another odd aspect is that the USB ports ARE available in opensuse 11.2. (I cannot upgrade the 11.1 hosts because of a Samba defect in 11.2.)

by James Moe, 15 years ago

Attachment:	VBox.2.log added

Startup log for Windows XP VM

comment:2 by Emerson Prado, 13 years ago

Dup of #3394?

comment:3 by Frank Mehnert, 12 years ago

Description:	modified (diff)
Resolution:	→ fixed
Status:	new → closed

Please reopen if still relevant with VBox 4.2.12.

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