VirtualBox USB Device Filters & OS crashes

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lance-link
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VirtualBox USB Device Filters & OS crashes

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I used the following procedure to successfully install VirtualBox 5.1 in a Fedora 24 Host and Windows 7 Guest.
However, the list of USB Device Filters is cleared after a reboot/shutdown, and the Guest OS crashes frequently. The shared folder configuration is permanent. If I execute "# /usr/lib/virtualbox/vboxdrv.sh setup" then I can reconfigure USB Device Filters, and the guest doesn't crash. How can I make the list of USB Device Filters permanent and stop the Guest crashing? Fedora data is encrytpted and the default machine folder is /home/Documents. Otherwise, defaults are used.

VirtualBox 5.1.4 Installation with Fedora 24 host

[Install VirtualBox Repository]
# cd /etc/yum.repos.d/
# wget ... rpm/fedora/virtualbox.repo
[omitted complete path above due to some Oracle Forum rule about posting urls]

[Install Dependency Packages]
# dnf update
# dnf install binutils qt gcc make patch libgomp glibc-headers glibc-devel kernel-headers kernel-devel dkms

[Install VirtualBox 5.1.4]
# dnf install VirtualBox-5.1

[Rebuild Kernel Modules]
# /usr/lib/virtualbox/vboxdrv.sh setup

Add user to vboxusers group. Replace user_name in the following command with the user's name.
# usermod -a -G vboxusers 'user_name'

[Install VirtualBox Extension Pack]
download the VirtualBox_Extension_Pack-5.1.4-110228.vbox-extpack

Virtualbox –> Preferences –> Extensions and browse for the vbox-extpack to install it.
lance-link
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Re: VirtualBox USB Device Filters & OS crashes

Post by lance-link »

Never mind the post.

From the repititive nature of the comments and cryptic responses, it looks like people don't get much useful help.

Obviously the users and especially the moderators don't know what the SPAM_SEARCH they are doing.
mpack
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Primary OS: MS Windows 10
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Re: VirtualBox USB Device Filters & OS crashes

Post by mpack »

lance-link wrote:From the repititive nature of the comments and cryptic responses, it looks like people don't get much useful help.
Especially not the ones who don't provide any data to work with, e.g. a log, or a screenshot, plus ask questions that are evidently covered by the user manual (e.g. how to configure a permanent USB filter, section 3.10.1 in the user manual).
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