USB keyboard doesnt work after be captured by VM

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karac00l
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Primary OS: Ubuntu 8.04
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USB keyboard doesnt work after be captured by VM

Post by karac00l »

Hi all,
First all, I have to say my english is not very good but I think you will understand the issue I have.


I am working in HP7700, 2GB Ram, SO Ubuntu 8.04 and VirtualBox version 3.0.4r50677
The VM is a WindowsXP with SP3. Everything works ok except one thing, when I try to use my keyboard with the SmartCard reader (I put the filter on), virtualbox captures the keyboard and works right in the guest but in the host I am not able to work with it. If I turn off the VM with XP, the keyboard in the host keep not working. To make it work again I have to reconnect the usb port manually or suspend and restart the host.
Can I do something to fix it?
Thanks in advance

lsusb:
Bus 004 Device 003: ID 03f0:1024 Hewlett-Packard

VBoxManaged list usbhost:
Host USB Devices:

UUID: ba4d66f6-023c-464d-9a25-3a77021ff30e
VendorId: 0x03f0 (03F0)
ProductId: 0x1024 (1024)
Revision: 5.53 (0553)
Manufacturer: Hewlett-Packard Company
Product: HP USB Smart Card Keyboard
SerialNumber: 0816c94f
Address: sysfs:/sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1d.1/usb4/4-1//device:/dev/bus/usb/004/003
Current State: Busy
Perryg
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Re: USB keyboard doesnt work after be captured by VM

Post by Perryg »

You should really not put a filter for the keyboard in the USB section of the guest setting. It will cause this very problem and usually kills the keyboard completely until a reboot of the host. If the reader is a separate device it may be possible to filter that but you would need to set this up and test yourself.
karac00l
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Joined: 26. May 2009, 18:46
Primary OS: Ubuntu 8.04
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Re: USB keyboard doesnt work after be captured by VM

Post by karac00l »

ok thank you
I spected that
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