[Solved] VB 5.02 and USB 3 problem

[angman]

Hi, I installed Virtualbox 5.02 on an Ubuntu 14.04 64 with 3.13.0-46-generic kernel but from windows 7 64 and also Xp 32 guest after setting the usb to use the usb 3 driver cannot see any external usb3 hd plugged.

may somebody suggest some solution?

Regards

[mpack]

The guest OS is talking to a USB3 device, which means that the guest OS has to support USB3 too.

XP doesn't have USB3 drivers, period, or at least none that are useful in a VirtualBox VM. For XP you can continue to use previous workarounds, i.e. plug the device into a USB2 port, or into a USB2 hub plugged into a USB3 port.

Windows 7 doesn't have native USB3 drivers, but xHCI drivers are easily found online.

[angman]

Ok, thank you for the very fast answer.

[angman]

Hi I have installed on my windows 7 64 then Intel(R)_USB_3.0_eXtensible_Host_Controller_Driver that is up and active, the xhci is enabled on the VM but still cannot see any plugged device.

I am missing something?

Regards

[Perryg]

@angman,

Did you install the extension pack ( on the host ) that matches the installed version of VirtualBox, and have you also added your user to the vboxusers group ( also on the host )?

[angman]

Thank you. now it is working.

[Perryg]

You're welcome.