[Solved] Host USB Devices: <none>

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GLM
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[Solved] Host USB Devices: <none>

Post by GLM »

Hi,

VirtualBox: 5.0.18.106667
Host: Windows 7 (Version 6.1.7601) 64-bit
Problem: Can't attach USB devices to virtual machines; <no devices available> in machine settings->USB (USB 2.0 EHCI controller is enabled).

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c:\users\glm>VBoxManage list extpacks
Extension Packs: 1
Pack no. 0: Oracle VM VirtualBox Extension Pack
Version: 5.0.18
Revision: 106667
Edition:
Description: USB 2.0 and USB 3.0 Host Controller, Host Webcam, VirtualBox RDP, PXE ROM, Disk Encryption.
VRDE Module: VBoxVRDP
Usable: true
Why unusable:

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c:\users\glm>VBoxManage list usbhost
Host USB Devices:

<none>
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VBox can't see host USB devices. Any ideas?.

Thanks in advance.

Regards.
mpack
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Re: Host USB Devices: <none>

Post by mpack »

Please post a VM log file (any affected VM will do). With the VM fully shut down, right click it in GUI. Select "Show Log" and save "VBox.log" (ONLY) to a zip file. Attach the zip here.
GLM
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Re: Host USB Devices: <none>

Post by GLM »

Hi,

Attached is "VBox.zip"

Thank you.

Regards.
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mpack
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Re: Host USB Devices: <none>

Post by mpack »

Good, now what exactly is the device, and what kind of host port are you using? (i.e. USB2 of USB3)?

AFAIK, VirtualBox provides a passthrough service, not a translation service. If you have a USB3 device plugged into a USB3 host port, then the guest OS needs to support USB3 (xHCI).

Another possibility is that you didn't allow the installation of the USB filter drivers when you installed VirtualBox. VirtualBox must be installed on 64bit Windows hosts using "Run as administrator", and your security level must not be pitched at the level whereby drivers are silently discarded - you need to see a prompt at least.
GLM
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Re: Host USB Devices: <none>

Post by GLM »

Host ports are USB2, USB devices are USB2; problem is not related to an specific USB device, I have several USB2 devices (USB disk, USB stick, Avaya Desktop Charger Advanced, among others) connected to host, none of them are listed with "VBoxManage list usbhost".

The installation was done with administrative privileges (domain administrator). I have another machine member of the same domain, same OS, installation was done with same user and installer, only difference is branch and model, and all USB devices are listed with "VBoxManage list usbhost".

Can you please list the USB filter drivers in order to check them?

Thank you again.

Best regards.
mpack
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Re: Host USB Devices: <none>

Post by mpack »

The attached screenshot shows all of the "VBox*" drivers that are installed in my \Windows\System32\Drivers folder. This implies but doesn't actually prove that they are being used. Showing that you have the same ones would be a good start.
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GLM
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Re: Host USB Devices: <none>

Post by GLM »

There are some differences, not only in file size and date.
Capture14-09-2015-13.48.3130-11-2015-11.17.2330-11-2015-11.18.1128-04-2016-10.51.03.jpg
Capture14-09-2015-13.48.3130-11-2015-11.17.2330-11-2015-11.18.1128-04-2016-10.51.03.jpg (87.5 KiB) Viewed 9082 times
What about running drivers? Serviwin capture:
Capture14-09-2015-13.48.3130-11-2015-11.17.2330-11-2015-11.18.1128-04-2016-10.54.27.jpg
Capture14-09-2015-13.48.3130-11-2015-11.17.2330-11-2015-11.18.1128-04-2016-10.54.27.jpg (36.7 KiB) Viewed 9082 times
Thank you.

Regards.
mpack
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Re: Host USB Devices: <none>

Post by mpack »

Some differences are to be expected. My screenshot is from my home PC, running an XP host, and the VirtualBox version is 5.0.12 so the dates will be different. The main difference however is no IPv6 and no NDIS6 (and later) on XP. So I'd say that your driver setup looks normal.

Do you have any other software on this PC that might be filtering USB devices in the same manner as VirtualBox? I'm thinking other VM platforms, or perhaps your AV software is doing it... and not passing the correct data on to the VirtualBox filter driver. Think of anything that might want to spy on the contents of a removable drive before allowing the host OS to see it.
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Re: Host USB Devices: <none>

Post by GLM »

Problem solved by uninstalling Windows Virtual PC and rebooting. Your mention of other VM platforms has put me on the right track, Thank you.

Best wishes.
kedr
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Host USB Devices: <none>

Post by kedr »

Hi!

I have the same problem: after upgrading from VirtualBox 4.3.12 to 5.0.20 host machine sees no USB devices.

VirtualBox: 5.0.20 r106931
Host: Windows 7 (Version 6.1.7601) 64-bit

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c:\Program Files\Oracle\VirtualBox>VBoxManage.exe list extpacks
Extension Packs: 1
Pack no. 0: Oracle VM VirtualBox Extension Pack
Version: 5.0.20
Revision: 106931
Edition:
Description: USB 2.0 and USB 3.0 Host Controller, Host Webcam, VirtualBox RDP, PXE ROM, Disk Encryption.
VRDE Module: VBoxVRDP
Usable: true
Why unusable:

c:\Program Files\Oracle\VirtualBox>VBoxManage.exe list usbhost
Host USB Devices:

<none>
---------------------------------------------

I uninstalled VMware Player and disabled antivirus (though they worked fine with VB 4.3.12) - no effect.

Vbox.log attached.
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Malchore
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Re: [Solved] Host USB Devices: <none>

Post by Malchore »

Just reporting that I have the same problem. I've NEVER been able to attach any USB stick to a Linux guest.

Host: Windows 10 Home (64-bit)
Vbox: 5.0.20 r 106931
Guest: (Doesn't matter, none of them work, but...) Linux Mint 17.3 Rosa (64-bit)

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C:\Windows\System32\drivers>vboxmanage list extpacks
Extension Packs: 1
Pack no. 0:   Oracle VM VirtualBox Extension Pack
Version:      5.0.20
Revision:     106931
Edition:
Description:  USB 2.0 and USB 3.0 Host Controller, Host Webcam, VirtualBox RDP, PXE ROM, Disk Encryption.
VRDE Module:  VBoxVRDP
Usable:       true
Why unusable:

C:\Windows\System32\drivers>vboxmanage list usbhost
Host USB Devices:

UUID:               81a1dbf5-343e-4b3c-811b-0daf17c47e39
VendorId:           0x0951 (0951)
ProductId:          0x1666 (1666)
Revision:           1.0 (0100)
Port:               0
USB version/speed:  3/Super
Manufacturer:       Kingston
Product:            DataTraveler 3.0
SerialNumber:       60A44C3FACDBBF30296E0170
Address:            {36fc9e60-c465-11cf-8056-444553540000}\0016
Current State:      Captured

C:\Windows\System32\drivers>vboxmanage list usbfilters
Global USB Device Filters:

<none>
I can't attach the guest log file - it is too big. (Forum only allows attachments up to 128KB.) I have no idea what to look for in the logs anyways. And frankly, this isn't such a big deal to me as I have always been able to add shared folders to my guests. So...if I ever needed to get files off a usb stick into my guests, I would copy them to my shared folder.

Oh, my .vbox vm config file:

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<?xml version="1.0"?>
<!--
** DO NOT EDIT THIS FILE.
** If you make changes to this file while any VirtualBox related application
** is running, your changes will be overwritten later, without taking effect.
** Use VBoxManage or the VirtualBox Manager GUI to make changes.
-->
<VirtualBox xmlns="http://www.innotek.de/VirtualBox-settings" version="1.15-windows">
  <Machine uuid="{1eae89bc-7dda-4419-afb4-cb67ff173fc6}" name="Mint17.3" OSType="Ubuntu_64" currentSnapshot="{11ee4d3e-c394-495c-ac35-96b83fd994d0}" snapshotFolder="Snapshots" lastStateChange="2016-06-07T03:57:58Z">
    <MediaRegistry>
      <HardDisks>
        <HardDisk uuid="{9f19187c-6755-4d9e-b2a6-4e4cc39d30d1}" location="Mint17.3.vdi" format="VDI" type="Normal">
          <HardDisk uuid="{b1980ffc-fc55-4843-b1d8-3024542a2071}" location="Snapshots/{b1980ffc-fc55-4843-b1d8-3024542a2071}.vdi" format="VDI"/>
        </HardDisk>
      </HardDisks>
      <DVDImages>
        <Image uuid="{f62dab6a-87e5-4f3c-b9fa-aa62a4e8b066}" location="C:/Documents and Apps/ISOs/linuxmint-17.3-cinnamon-64bit.iso"/>
      </DVDImages>
      <FloppyImages/>
    </MediaRegistry>
    <ExtraData>
      <ExtraDataItem name="GUI/LastCloseAction" value="PowerOff"/>
      <ExtraDataItem name="GUI/LastGuestSizeHint" value="1920,975"/>
      <ExtraDataItem name="GUI/LastNormalWindowPosition" value="117,133,944,393,max"/>
      <ExtraDataItem name="GUI/RestrictedRuntimeDevicesMenuActions" value="HardDrives"/>
      <ExtraDataItem name="GUI/RestrictedRuntimeMachineMenuActions" value="SaveState,PowerOff"/>
      <ExtraDataItem name="GUI/ScaleFactor" value="1"/>
      <ExtraDataItem name="GUI/StatusBar/IndicatorOrder" value="HardDisks,OpticalDisks,FloppyDisks,Network,USB,SharedFolders,Display,VideoCapture,Features,Mouse,Keyboard"/>
    </ExtraData>
    <Snapshot uuid="{11ee4d3e-c394-495c-ac35-96b83fd994d0}" name="2016JUN06" timeStamp="2016-06-06T22:11:21Z">
      <Description>After upgrading VBoxGuestAdditions to version 5_0_20</Description>
      <Hardware version="2">
        <CPU count="2" executionCap="80" hotplug="false">
          <HardwareVirtEx enabled="true"/>
          <HardwareVirtExNestedPaging enabled="true"/>
          <HardwareVirtExVPID enabled="true"/>
          <HardwareVirtExUX enabled="true"/>
          <PAE enabled="false"/>
          <LongMode enabled="true"/>
          <HardwareVirtExLargePages enabled="true"/>
          <HardwareVirtForce enabled="false"/>
        </CPU>
        <Memory RAMSize="2048" PageFusion="false"/>
        <HID Pointing="USBTablet" Keyboard="PS2Keyboard"/>
        <HPET enabled="false"/>
        <Chipset type="PIIX3"/>
        <Paravirt provider="Default"/>
        <Boot>
          <Order position="1" device="DVD"/>
          <Order position="2" device="HardDisk"/>
          <Order position="3" device="None"/>
          <Order position="4" device="None"/>
        </Boot>
        <Display VRAMSize="128" monitorCount="1" accelerate3D="true" accelerate2DVideo="false"/>
        <VideoCapture enabled="false" screens="18446744073709551615" horzRes="1024" vertRes="768" rate="512" fps="25" maxTime="0" maxSize="0"/>
        <RemoteDisplay enabled="false" authType="Null" authTimeout="5000">
          <VRDEProperties>
            <Property name="TCP/Ports" value="3389"/>
          </VRDEProperties>
        </RemoteDisplay>
        <BIOS>
          <ACPI enabled="true"/>
          <IOAPIC enabled="true"/>
          <Logo fadeIn="true" fadeOut="true" displayTime="0"/>
          <BootMenu mode="MessageAndMenu"/>
          <TimeOffset value="0"/>
          <PXEDebug enabled="false"/>
        </BIOS>
        <USB>
          <Controllers>
            <Controller name="xHCI" type="XHCI"/>
          </Controllers>
          <DeviceFilters/>
        </USB>
        <Network>
          <Adapter slot="0" enabled="true" MACAddress="080027A23BC3" cable="true" speed="0" type="82540EM">
            <DisabledModes>
              <NAT>
                <DNS pass-domain="true" use-proxy="false" use-host-resolver="false"/>
                <Alias logging="false" proxy-only="false" use-same-ports="false"/>
              </NAT>
              <InternalNetwork name="intnet"/>
              <NATNetwork name="NatNetwork"/>
            </DisabledModes>
            <BridgedInterface name="Realtek PCIe GBE Family Controller"/>
          </Adapter>
          <Adapter slot="1" enabled="false" MACAddress="080027F37535" cable="true" speed="0" type="82540EM">
            <DisabledModes>
              <NAT>
                <DNS pass-domain="true" use-proxy="false" use-host-resolver="false"/>
                <Alias logging="false" proxy-only="false" use-same-ports="false"/>
              </NAT>
            </DisabledModes>
          </Adapter>
          <Adapter slot="2" enabled="false" MACAddress="0800279264C9" cable="true" speed="0" type="82540EM">
            <DisabledModes>
              <NAT>
                <DNS pass-domain="true" use-proxy="false" use-host-resolver="false"/>
                <Alias logging="false" proxy-only="false" use-same-ports="false"/>
              </NAT>
            </DisabledModes>
          </Adapter>
          <Adapter slot="3" enabled="false" MACAddress="0800276327E8" cable="true" speed="0" type="82540EM">
            <DisabledModes>
              <NAT>
                <DNS pass-domain="true" use-proxy="false" use-host-resolver="false"/>
                <Alias logging="false" proxy-only="false" use-same-ports="false"/>
              </NAT>
            </DisabledModes>
          </Adapter>
          <Adapter slot="4" enabled="false" MACAddress="080027088B3F" cable="true" speed="0" type="82540EM">
            <DisabledModes>
              <NAT>
                <DNS pass-domain="true" use-proxy="false" use-host-resolver="false"/>
                <Alias logging="false" proxy-only="false" use-same-ports="false"/>
              </NAT>
            </DisabledModes>
          </Adapter>
          <Adapter slot="5" enabled="false" MACAddress="08002752C1B5" cable="true" speed="0" type="82540EM">
            <DisabledModes>
              <NAT>
                <DNS pass-domain="true" use-proxy="false" use-host-resolver="false"/>
                <Alias logging="false" proxy-only="false" use-same-ports="false"/>
              </NAT>
            </DisabledModes>
          </Adapter>
          <Adapter slot="6" enabled="false" MACAddress="0800270FEC76" cable="true" speed="0" type="82540EM">
            <DisabledModes>
              <NAT>
                <DNS pass-domain="true" use-proxy="false" use-host-resolver="false"/>
                <Alias logging="false" proxy-only="false" use-same-ports="false"/>
              </NAT>
            </DisabledModes>
          </Adapter>
          <Adapter slot="7" enabled="false" MACAddress="0800276F3FF4" cable="true" speed="0" type="82540EM">
            <DisabledModes>
              <NAT>
                <DNS pass-domain="true" use-proxy="false" use-host-resolver="false"/>
                <Alias logging="false" proxy-only="false" use-same-ports="false"/>
              </NAT>
            </DisabledModes>
          </Adapter>
        </Network>
        <UART/>
        <LPT>
          <Port slot="1" enabled="false" IOBase="0x378" IRQ="7"/>
        </LPT>
        <AudioAdapter controller="AC97" codec="AD1980" driver="DirectSound" enabled="true"/>
        <RTC localOrUTC="UTC"/>
        <SharedFolders>
          <SharedFolder name="linux_shared" hostPath="C:\linux_shared" writable="true" autoMount="true"/>
        </SharedFolders>
        <Clipboard mode="Bidirectional"/>
        <DragAndDrop mode="Disabled"/>
        <IO>
          <IoCache enabled="true" size="5"/>
          <BandwidthGroups/>
        </IO>
        <HostPci>
          <Devices/>
        </HostPci>
        <EmulatedUSB>
          <CardReader enabled="false"/>
        </EmulatedUSB>
        <Guest memoryBalloonSize="0"/>
        <GuestProperties>
          <GuestProperty name="/VirtualBox/GuestAdd/HostVerLastChecked" value="5.0.20" timestamp="1465250523777484400" flags=""/>
          <GuestProperty name="/VirtualBox/GuestAdd/Revision" value="106931" timestamp="1465250469096747806" flags=""/>
          <GuestProperty name="/VirtualBox/GuestAdd/Vbgl/Video/0" value="1920x975x32,0x0,1" timestamp="1465246961895232600" flags=""/>
          <GuestProperty name="/VirtualBox/GuestAdd/Vbgl/Video/SavedMode" value="1920x975x32" timestamp="1465246961895232601" flags=""/>
          <GuestProperty name="/VirtualBox/GuestAdd/Version" value="5.0.20" timestamp="1465250469096747804" flags=""/>
          <GuestProperty name="/VirtualBox/GuestAdd/VersionExt" value="5.0.20" timestamp="1465250469096747805" flags=""/>
          <GuestProperty name="/VirtualBox/GuestInfo/OS/Product" value="Linux" timestamp="1465250469096747800" flags=""/>
          <GuestProperty name="/VirtualBox/GuestInfo/OS/Release" value="3.19.0-32-generic" timestamp="1465250469096747801" flags=""/>
          <GuestProperty name="/VirtualBox/GuestInfo/OS/Version" value="#37~14.04.1-Ubuntu SMP Thu Oct 22 09:41:40 UTC 2015" timestamp="1465250469096747802" flags=""/>
          <GuestProperty name="/VirtualBox/HostInfo/GUI/LanguageID" value="en_US" timestamp="1465251024201738800" flags=""/>
        </GuestProperties>
      </Hardware>
      <StorageControllers>
        <StorageController name="IDE" type="PIIX4" PortCount="2" useHostIOCache="true" Bootable="true">
          <AttachedDevice passthrough="false" type="DVD" hotpluggable="false" port="1" device="0"/>
        </StorageController>
        <StorageController name="SATA" type="AHCI" PortCount="1" useHostIOCache="false" Bootable="true" IDE0MasterEmulationPort="0" IDE0SlaveEmulationPort="1" IDE1MasterEmulationPort="2" IDE1SlaveEmulationPort="3">
          <AttachedDevice type="HardDisk" hotpluggable="false" port="0" device="0">
            <Image uuid="{9f19187c-6755-4d9e-b2a6-4e4cc39d30d1}"/>
          </AttachedDevice>
        </StorageController>
      </StorageControllers>
    </Snapshot>
    <Hardware version="2">
      <CPU count="2" executionCap="80" hotplug="false">
        <HardwareVirtEx enabled="true"/>
        <HardwareVirtExNestedPaging enabled="true"/>
        <HardwareVirtExVPID enabled="true"/>
        <HardwareVirtExUX enabled="true"/>
        <PAE enabled="false"/>
        <LongMode enabled="true"/>
        <HardwareVirtExLargePages enabled="true"/>
        <HardwareVirtForce enabled="false"/>
      </CPU>
      <Memory RAMSize="2048" PageFusion="false"/>
      <HID Pointing="USBTablet" Keyboard="PS2Keyboard"/>
      <HPET enabled="false"/>
      <Chipset type="PIIX3"/>
      <Paravirt provider="Default"/>
      <Boot>
        <Order position="1" device="DVD"/>
        <Order position="2" device="HardDisk"/>
        <Order position="3" device="None"/>
        <Order position="4" device="None"/>
      </Boot>
      <Display VRAMSize="128" monitorCount="1" accelerate3D="true" accelerate2DVideo="false"/>
      <VideoCapture enabled="false" screens="18446744073709551615" horzRes="1024" vertRes="768" rate="512" fps="25" maxTime="0" maxSize="0"/>
      <RemoteDisplay enabled="false" authType="Null" authTimeout="5000">
        <VRDEProperties>
          <Property name="TCP/Ports" value="3389"/>
        </VRDEProperties>
      </RemoteDisplay>
      <BIOS>
        <ACPI enabled="true"/>
        <IOAPIC enabled="true"/>
        <Logo fadeIn="true" fadeOut="true" displayTime="0"/>
        <BootMenu mode="MessageAndMenu"/>
        <TimeOffset value="0"/>
        <PXEDebug enabled="false"/>
      </BIOS>
      <USB>
        <Controllers>
          <Controller name="xHCI" type="XHCI"/>
        </Controllers>
        <DeviceFilters>
          <DeviceFilter name="Kingston DataTraveler 3.0 [0100]" active="true" vendorId="0951" productId="1666" revision="0100" manufacturer="Kingston" product="DataTraveler 3.0" serialNumber="60A44C3FACDBBF30296E0170" remote="0"/>
        </DeviceFilters>
      </USB>
      <Network>
        <Adapter slot="0" enabled="true" MACAddress="080027A23BC3" cable="true" speed="0" type="82540EM">
          <DisabledModes>
            <NAT>
              <DNS pass-domain="true" use-proxy="false" use-host-resolver="false"/>
              <Alias logging="false" proxy-only="false" use-same-ports="false"/>
            </NAT>
            <InternalNetwork name="intnet"/>
            <NATNetwork name="NatNetwork"/>
          </DisabledModes>
          <BridgedInterface name="Realtek PCIe GBE Family Controller"/>
        </Adapter>
        <Adapter slot="1" enabled="false" MACAddress="080027F37535" cable="true" speed="0" type="82540EM">
          <DisabledModes>
            <NAT>
              <DNS pass-domain="true" use-proxy="false" use-host-resolver="false"/>
              <Alias logging="false" proxy-only="false" use-same-ports="false"/>
            </NAT>
          </DisabledModes>
        </Adapter>
        <Adapter slot="2" enabled="false" MACAddress="0800279264C9" cable="true" speed="0" type="82540EM">
          <DisabledModes>
            <NAT>
              <DNS pass-domain="true" use-proxy="false" use-host-resolver="false"/>
              <Alias logging="false" proxy-only="false" use-same-ports="false"/>
            </NAT>
          </DisabledModes>
        </Adapter>
        <Adapter slot="3" enabled="false" MACAddress="0800276327E8" cable="true" speed="0" type="82540EM">
          <DisabledModes>
            <NAT>
              <DNS pass-domain="true" use-proxy="false" use-host-resolver="false"/>
              <Alias logging="false" proxy-only="false" use-same-ports="false"/>
            </NAT>
          </DisabledModes>
        </Adapter>
        <Adapter slot="4" enabled="false" MACAddress="080027088B3F" cable="true" speed="0" type="82540EM">
          <DisabledModes>
            <NAT>
              <DNS pass-domain="true" use-proxy="false" use-host-resolver="false"/>
              <Alias logging="false" proxy-only="false" use-same-ports="false"/>
            </NAT>
          </DisabledModes>
        </Adapter>
        <Adapter slot="5" enabled="false" MACAddress="08002752C1B5" cable="true" speed="0" type="82540EM">
          <DisabledModes>
            <NAT>
              <DNS pass-domain="true" use-proxy="false" use-host-resolver="false"/>
              <Alias logging="false" proxy-only="false" use-same-ports="false"/>
            </NAT>
          </DisabledModes>
        </Adapter>
        <Adapter slot="6" enabled="false" MACAddress="0800270FEC76" cable="true" speed="0" type="82540EM">
          <DisabledModes>
            <NAT>
              <DNS pass-domain="true" use-proxy="false" use-host-resolver="false"/>
              <Alias logging="false" proxy-only="false" use-same-ports="false"/>
            </NAT>
          </DisabledModes>
        </Adapter>
        <Adapter slot="7" enabled="false" MACAddress="0800276F3FF4" cable="true" speed="0" type="82540EM">
          <DisabledModes>
            <NAT>
              <DNS pass-domain="true" use-proxy="false" use-host-resolver="false"/>
              <Alias logging="false" proxy-only="false" use-same-ports="false"/>
            </NAT>
          </DisabledModes>
        </Adapter>
      </Network>
      <UART/>
      <LPT>
        <Port slot="1" enabled="false" IOBase="0x378" IRQ="7"/>
      </LPT>
      <AudioAdapter controller="AC97" codec="AD1980" driver="DirectSound" enabled="true"/>
      <RTC localOrUTC="UTC"/>
      <SharedFolders>
        <SharedFolder name="linux_shared" hostPath="C:\linux_shared" writable="true" autoMount="true"/>
      </SharedFolders>
      <Clipboard mode="Bidirectional"/>
      <DragAndDrop mode="Disabled"/>
      <IO>
        <IoCache enabled="true" size="5"/>
        <BandwidthGroups/>
      </IO>
      <HostPci>
        <Devices/>
      </HostPci>
      <EmulatedUSB>
        <CardReader enabled="false"/>
      </EmulatedUSB>
      <Guest memoryBalloonSize="0"/>
      <GuestProperties>
        <GuestProperty name="/VirtualBox/GuestAdd/HostVerLastChecked" value="5.0.20" timestamp="1465271283015468600" flags=""/>
        <GuestProperty name="/VirtualBox/GuestAdd/Revision" value="106931" timestamp="1465271239334004904" flags=""/>
        <GuestProperty name="/VirtualBox/GuestAdd/Vbgl/Video/0" value="1920x975x32,0x0,1" timestamp="1465246961895232600" flags=""/>
        <GuestProperty name="/VirtualBox/GuestAdd/Vbgl/Video/SavedMode" value="1920x975x32" timestamp="1465246961895232601" flags=""/>
        <GuestProperty name="/VirtualBox/GuestAdd/Version" value="5.0.20" timestamp="1465271239334004902" flags=""/>
        <GuestProperty name="/VirtualBox/GuestAdd/VersionExt" value="5.0.20" timestamp="1465271239334004903" flags=""/>
        <GuestProperty name="/VirtualBox/GuestInfo/OS/Product" value="Linux" timestamp="1465271239333027200" flags=""/>
        <GuestProperty name="/VirtualBox/GuestInfo/OS/Release" value="3.19.0-32-generic" timestamp="1465271239333027201" flags=""/>
        <GuestProperty name="/VirtualBox/GuestInfo/OS/Version" value="#37~14.04.1-Ubuntu SMP Thu Oct 22 09:41:40 UTC 2015" timestamp="1465271239334004900" flags=""/>
        <GuestProperty name="/VirtualBox/HostInfo/GUI/LanguageID" value="en_US" timestamp="1465271879003899400" flags=""/>
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        <AttachedDevice passthrough="false" type="DVD" hotpluggable="false" port="1" device="0"/>
      </StorageController>
      <StorageController name="SATA" type="AHCI" PortCount="1" useHostIOCache="false" Bootable="true" IDE0MasterEmulationPort="0" IDE0SlaveEmulationPort="1" IDE1MasterEmulationPort="2" IDE1SlaveEmulationPort="3">
        <AttachedDevice type="HardDisk" hotpluggable="false" port="0" device="0">
          <Image uuid="{b1980ffc-fc55-4843-b1d8-3024542a2071}"/>
        </AttachedDevice>
      </StorageController>
    </StorageControllers>
  </Machine>
</VirtualBox>
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Re: [Solved] Host USB Devices: <none>

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Follow the steps below. If there is a failure, please state which step failed:
  1. Make sure that the Extension Pack is installed on the host. The same version as VirtualBox.
  2. Make sure that USB is enabled in your VM settings.
  3. Create a USB filter in your guest settings while the device is plugged in the host. Delete all values except Name, VendorID and ProductID.
  4. Unplug the device.
  5. Start your guest (the one that you applied the filter to). Let it start completely. Log in if you have to.
  6. Plug your device.
Malchore wrote:I can't attach the guest log file - it is too big.
Not if you zip it, it's not.
Malchore wrote:I have no idea what to look for in the logs anyways.
That's why you post them, so others can have a look at them.

BTW, your host (Win7) does not natively support USB3. I assume that you've taken the necessary steps to install the support otherwise you wouldn't be able to use the USB3 devices on your host, right?
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Re: [Solved] Host USB Devices: <none>

Post by Malchore »

Thanks for reply, Socratis. One quick note: my host is Windows 10 Home (64bit)

I followed all your steps and got the exact same result. I attached an updated .vbox file (because the USB filter had been modified.) Also attached a .zip log file from the session.
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Re: [Solved] Host USB Devices: <none>

Post by socratis »

Did you actually attach the USB device in question? I did a test with a Mint 17 VM and here's what I got in the VBox.log (which I was expecting to see from yours as well, but I didn't):
VBox.log wrote:
00:00:02.289036 VUSB: Attached 'HidMouse' to port 1
...
00:01:56.915427 VUSB: Attached '00007f88bc393ea0[proxy 0718:070a]' to port 1    <-- 1 in
00:01:56.915694 EHCI: USB Operational
00:02:05.616110 VUSB: Attached '00007f88bc406020[proxy 058f:6387]' to port 2    <-- 2 in
00:02:18.426567 VUSB: Detached '00007f88bc406020[proxy 058f:6387]' from port 2  <-- 2 out
... (after shutting down the VM)
00:02:43.572501 VUSB: Detached 'HidMouse' from port 1
00:02:43.572584 VUSB: Detached '00007f88bc393ea0[proxy 0718:070a]' from port 1  <-- 1 auto-out
I inserted two USB sticks and removed them in reverse order. I had already setup the filters as:
Mint.VBOX wrote:
<DeviceFilter name="TDK 8GB" active="true" vendorId="0718" productId="070a" remote="0"/>
<DeviceFilter name="SanDisk 8GB" active="true" vendorId="0781" productId="5539" remote="0"/>
<DeviceFilter name="Trascend 1GB" active="true" vendorId="058f" productId="6387" remote="0"/>
As you can see they attach and detach fine. Now, I'm on a Mac with no USB3, but in theory this is what it is supposed to look like, so would you mind giving it one more shot? Just wait for your VM to start completely, wait a couple of minutes so that it is obvious in the log time, then insert your USB.
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