I'm a long time user of VirtualBox, and have had remarkably few problems with it, so thanks for that. Now however, after upgrading my host operating system to 64bit Ubuntu 12.10, I have problems with one paritcular USB device, a connector from my Garmin wrist computer. All the other USB devices I've tried work fine and my user is part of the 'vboxusers' group. The guest I'm running is Windows 7, and this is the same virtual machine that was running on my old host computer that I'm now trying to get away from, which is running 32bit Ubuntu 12.04. Both the old and new host are running VirtualBox and guest additions version 4.2.4. The said Garmin USB connector has worked fine in all my previous configurations with VirtualBox, for approximately 5 years.
Now the problem: (Usually) When I connect my Garmin, I get the following:
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Failed to attach the USB device Unknown device 091E:0003 [0001] to the virtual machine WindowsSeiska.
Failed to create a proxy device for the USB device. (Error: VERR_READ_ERROR).
Result Code: NS_ERROR_FAILURE (0x80004005)
Component: Console
Interface: IConsole {db7ab4ca-2a3f-4183-9243-c1208da92392}
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KERNEL=="vboxdrv", NAME="vboxdrv", OWNER="root", GROUP="root", MODE="0666"
KERNEL=="vboxnetctl", NAME="vboxnetctl", OWNER="root", GROUP="root", MODE="0666"
So, there's something fishy going on. The default kernel in Ubuntu 12.10 is 3.5.0-18. I've also tried mainline kernel 3.6.7, but it's got the same issue.
It does seem to be some kind of permissions issue. And mayge a 64bit issue, since I run the same virtual machine in 32bit Ubuntu just fine. I don't know how to track it down further. Is there some way to run VirtualBox in "root" mode so that it has all the permissions, so I can confirm that it is indeed something to do with permissions? Can I somehow debug this problem further?
Below is VirtualBox view of the USB device:
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UUID: 855e3c81-c005-471f-bedd-d56dfbff41ca
VendorId: 0x091e (091E)
ProductId: 0x0003 (0003)
Revision: 0.1 (0001)
Port: 2
USB version/speed: 1/1
Address: sysfs:/sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:14.0/usb3/3-3//device:/dev/vboxusb/003/004
Current State: Available
Juhis