[Solved] Unable to see USB devices on Windows 7 guest OS

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maccabbeo
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[Solved] Unable to see USB devices on Windows 7 guest OS

Post by maccabbeo »

Hi to all,

As the title clearly says, I cannot see any USB device on the Windows7 guest OS, despite those are clearly visible on the Linux host OS. I have tried with a USB key and two Android phones.
I have both GuestAddirions and ExtensionPack installed on my VirtualBox 6.0.4 r128413 (Qt5.9.5), downloaded from the official website, and the user running Virtualbox belongs to the vboxusers group

Host: Linux Mint 19 Tara - Kernel: 4.15.0-45-generic x86_64 - Desktop Environment: MATE 1.20.1

What should I do?
Thanks
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mpack
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Re: Unable to see USB devices on Windows 7 guest OS

Post by mpack »

I suggest you have a look at:

USB basics and troubleshooting.
maccabbeo
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Re: Unable to see USB devices on Windows 7 guest OS

Post by maccabbeo »

Not that intuitive way to manage USB devices, but it makes sense and your link helped me to solve the problem.
Thank you so much for your time.
Regards.
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Re: [Solved] Unable to see USB devices on Windows 7 guest OS

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Great, thanks for letting us know. And thank you for marking the topic as [Solved]... ;)
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