At wits' end trying to find USB external in Explorer

[Al Dunbar]

OS 10.6.8 Host
Windows 7 Ultimate Guest, Service Pack 1
VB 4.3.6 r91406, latest guest additions.
I've read the manual and searched the boards.

This is silly, I'm sure, but I can't for the life of me make a connected USB external drive show up in Windows Explorer.

I've added the USB external harddrive in settings under ports, and it shows my drive. The drive has always shown up in the VB attached devices menu, and is checked (ejected from the host). Yet I cannot find the damn thing in the actual Windows environment. What am I doing wrong?

[mpack]

? The only "Ports" section in the VM settings is "Serial Ports" and a seriously doubt you found anything USB related in there.

What kind of drive is it? If it's USB3 then it won't work in VirtualBox. Also if your OSX host has USB3 ports then last I heard they won't work in VirtualBox either.

Moving to "Mac hosts" since the guest type really makes little difference here.

[Al Dunbar]

? The only "Ports" section in the VM settings is "Serial Ports" and a seriously doubt you found anything USB related in there.

What kind of drive is it? If it's USB3 then it won't work in VirtualBox. Also if your OSX host has USB3 ports then last I heard they won't work in VirtualBox either.

Moving to "Mac hosts" since the guest type really makes little difference here.

What I see in the Ports section of Settings is "Serial Ports", like you say, but also "USB". In "USB", I can see and add my particular drive. Maybe I shouldn't be doing that, and perhaps this is a red herring.
It's not USB3 and my OSX host does not have USB3.
Are you sure guest type makes no difference? I almost feel like there's something obvious I should be doing in Windows to see the drive.

[socratis]

I can see and add my particular drive.

Do you mean you add a filter? If so, what values are filled in? As a basic start you only need the Vendor and the Product with the rest of the values empty.

[Al Dunbar]

I can see and add my particular drive.

Do you mean you add a filter? If so, what values are filled in? As a basic start you only need the Vendor and the Product with the rest of the values empty.

It's a filter with all of the values filled in.

[socratis]

Did you read the 3rd sentence? "As a basic start you only need the Vendor and the Product with the rest of the values empty."

[dotnetkim]

I'm having the same problem, 4 years later. Anyone have a solution?

[socratis]

Please read an older post of mine: [Solved] USB device (gamepad) greyed out, can't be selected.

[Al Dunbar]

Did you read the 3rd sentence? "As a basic start you only need the Vendor and the Product with the rest of the values empty."

Yes, but what does that have to do with anything? I didn't enter in any of this. Are you saying I need to delete it out and start with just Vendor and Product? That ain't the issue.

[Al Dunbar]

Please read an older post of mine: [Solved] USB device (gamepad) greyed out, can't be selected.

Mine's not greyed out. It's checked. I just can't find it in Windows Explorer, as noted in my first post.

[socratis]

OK, my bad, I misunderstood.
1) Start the VM.
2) Plug the external USB drive.
3) Wait 2 minutes.
4) Shut down the guest.
5) Post the VBox.log as a compressed attachment.

[Al Dunbar]

OK, my bad, I misunderstood.
1) Start the VM.
2) Plug the external USB drive.
3) Wait 2 minutes.
4) Shut down the guest.
5) Post the VBox.log as a compressed attachment.

Sorry I haven't gotten around to this---I'm having constant restarting issues that are taking over. This is actually why I desparately wanted to get the storage device working---so I could back everything up before I lose it all.

[Al Dunbar]

Months later I've gotten around to this. Understood if everyone has left the building.

Still having constant crashing, btw, so I'd really like to back everything up before I delete the snapshot I'm working from.

[socratis]

It seems that you don't have the Extension Pack installed. It is required to enable USB 2.0 support.

[Al Dunbar]

Thanks!

Reinstalled extension pack, re-ran guest additions, same behavior, but now getting this fail info re: ext. pack in my log, which is likely a red herring based on webcam aspect?:

00:00:00.995737 rtldrNativeLoad: dlopen('/Applications/VirtualBox.app/Contents/MacOS/ExtensionPacks/Oracle_VM_VirtualBox_Extension_Pack/darwin.x86/VBoxHostWebcam.dylib', RTLD_NOW | RTLD_LOCAL) failed: dlopen(/Applications/VirtualBox.app/Contents/MacOS/ExtensionPacks/Oracle_VM_VirtualBox_Extension_Pack/darwin.x86/VBoxHostWebcam.dylib, 6): Library not loaded: /System/Library/Frameworks/AVFoundation.framework/Versions/A/AVFoundation
00:00:00.995740 Referenced from: /Applications/VirtualBox.app/Contents/MacOS/ExtensionPacks/Oracle_VM_VirtualBox_Extension_Pack/darwin.x86/VBoxHostWebcam.dylib
00:00:00.995740 Reason: image not found

I've attached the new log.