Cannot connect to a USB device on my VB.

[ASEeng]

Hi,

I am new to Virtual Box and am having trouble connecting my J-Link Atmel SAM-ICE via USB in my guest system. I have windows 7 Home Premium SP1 as the host and Ubuntu 14.04 LTS as my guest. I have installed the guest extensions. I am running VB 4.3.28 r100309.

I have used this same PC and ICE unit together under my windows 7 environment so I know that the equipment is working correctly there. But even though I have the USB controller and the USB 2.0 controller boxes checked and the SEGGER J-Link [0100] USB filter selected and enabled in the VM VB Manager I can not connect to the USB port using the Jlink software. I can connect to a thumb drive in the VB using the same port as I am using with the Jlink connection. So I know that I have some connection of the USB to the guest system.

I cannot see the device in Ubuntu when I do a lsusb in a guest terminal window but I do see the thumb drive when I have that plugged in.

My PC has 8Gb RAM and a 1 TB hard drive. The VB has 788 MB base memory, 8 GB hard drive. I am attaching all the logs I think you require.

I am also new to Ubuntu so please keep any instructions clear and simple.

Thanks for any help.

[mpack]

I would be rather surprised if an ICE header (JTAG?) was happy with the latencies inherent in a VM, but I could be wrong.

Also, if if the device is USB3 then note that USB3 devices are not currently supported.

I deleted your startup log since you make no mention of having VM startup issues.

I also deleted the redundant second log. FYI we also prefer that logs are compressed before you upload them.

[ASEeng]

Thanks for your speedy reply.
This ICE is a JTAG interface. The SAM-ICE is a USB2 device so that is OK but in finding that information I noticed that the SAM-ICE documentation states it only works on windows platforms. But SEGGER the Jlink and JlinkGDBServer software source has images for Linux based systems. I plan on asking Atmel if the ICE will work on an Ubuntu environment as they are the ones pushing me to use that for my build environment. I would rather work in windows as that is what I am most comfortable with.

Again thanks for your help and I will post any details I get from Atmel on this issue.

[EGWork]

I'm having the same issue. Same device. I'm running Windows 7 Enterprise as the host and Ubuntu 14.04 LTS as my guest. I have installed the guest extensions. I am running VB 5.0.0 r101573 with the Oracle VM VirtualBox Extension Pack added.

I have been using the SAM-ICE unit quite successfully using an Ubuntu 14.04 LTS guest in VMWare Player, so I can verify that it does work with Ubuntu and it does work with virtualization. I was wanting to switch to VirtualBox for my VM (for non-technical reasons), but unless I can get this working, that looks like it won't be an option.