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Hello,

I have a Windows XP guest system running on Linux Ubuntu 7.10.
USB Storage works fine with Virtualbox but my MSP430 Microprocessor connected over USB only gets a connection error. I have installed the drivers of the MSP430 under the Windows guest, the device could also be found under windows as MSP-FET430UIF JTAG Tool but the transfer from sourcecode to the msp430 doesn't work.

With VMware everything is ok.

Any ideas?
Thanks

4 years later, and I don't think this works yet still.

I use Ubuntu 11.04 64-bit as host with the 4.04 OSE version of VirtualBox and the extension pack for USB support. The guest OS is 32-bit Ubuntu 11.04. I can detect the MSP430 launchpad in virtualbox and see it show up as a UART device in my guest OS. However, all attempts to communicate with the device using the opensource msp430 debugger fail miserably. My current workaround is to use the msp430 debugger to connect via the host machine, and the guest machine can use the debug proxy to connect to the host and program that way. Though this works, it sort of defeats the purpose of putting all my launchpad devtools into a virtual machine to begin with.

Many development tools need very specific timings to communicate over USB or don't care about USB standards. This doesn't work well in virtulized environments.