Failed to attach the USB device

[Francesco C.]

Hi,
i'm trying to use USB device composed by 2 device in 1. This device is a USB drive with a smart card reader inside. I haven't any problem mounting USB drive from mac to Win 7 Pro 64bit (Guest OS) on MAC OS X 10.10 (HOST OS). When I try to attach smart card reader I receive this error:
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Failed to attach the USB device Bit4id Key4 [0100] to the virtual machine MACHINENAME.

USB device 'Bit4id Key4' with UUID {910cbc74-83ab-4341-aafe-2137fa19cbdf} is in use by someone else.

Result Code: NS_ERROR_FAILURE (0x80004005)
Component: HostUSBDevice
Interface: IHostUSBDevice {173b4b44-d268-4334-a00d-b6521c9a740a}
Callee: IConsole {8ab7c520-2442-4b66-8d74-4ff1e195d2b6}
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I've tried to filter device by USB filter, but I receive same error message by Host OS.
Any suggest to solve this problem? thanks

Francesco

[loukingjr]

Is it a USB 3.0 device because VirtualBox does not support USB 3.0. You might be able to access a card reader using a shared folder.

[Francesco C.]

Is it a USB 3.0 device because VirtualBox does not support USB 3.0. You might be able to access a card reader using a shared folder.

Hi,
Device is a usb 2.0.
How can i use card reader using shared folder?
Tnks

[loukingjr]

Just so it's clear, this device is a USB hard drive with an included smart card reader?

If so, I can only hazard a guess as to how to get it working. You would have to have a smart card inserted in it before it's attached to a guest.

[Francesco C.]

Just so it's clear, this device is a USB hard drive with an included smart card reader?

If so, I can only hazard a guess as to how to get it working. You would have to have a smart card inserted in it before it's attached to a guest.

Yes is a usb drive with Smart card reader inside, the card is like a cellular sim and is used to Digital sign document.
I've tried to insert before and after os guest is started, same result, error. At the moment customer sign its document from mac, but I would like to do all operation from windows 7 os.

[loukingjr]

Yes, I looked it up. Does it come with drivers for the Mac you have to install?

Seeing this is a security device, getting it to work in a virtual machine could be problematic.

[Francesco C.]

Yes, I looked it up. Does it come with drivers for the Mac you have to install?

Seeing this is a security device, getting it to work in a virtual machine could be problematic.

I've read a guide to use smart card reader under mac and I download form Italian certification authority (this reader is used by lawyers to sign documents) a realtek pkg. And I used a personalized software to test the smart card.

[loukingjr]

In theory, if you created a USB filter for the device, and you don't plug it in until your Windows guest is open, the guest should capture the device. If there is a guide for using it with Windows you might want to take a look at that.

Other than that, I don't know but perhaps someone else might.

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