I cannot access any USB devices in my Windows XP guest -> feature not present in OSE

[Timmy Jame Rose]

The User Guide says:

The “USB” section in a virtual machine’s Settings window allows you to configure VirtualBox’s sophisticated USB support.

I don't have a "USB" section in my Virtual machine settings ??

timmy@Black-Rose:~$ uname -a Linux Black-Rose 2.6.27-11-generic #1 SMP Thu Jan 29 19:28:32 UTC 2009 x86_64 GNU/Linux

My PC is running AMD Phenom x4 processor and running Ubuntu Intrepid Ipex 8.10

I get the following from VBoxManage list usbhost & VBoxManage showvminfo "Lily Rose"

timmy@Black-Rose:~$ VBoxManage list usbhost VirtualBox Command Line Management Interface Version 2.0.4_OSE (C) 2005-2008 Sun Microsystems, Inc. All rights reserved.

[!] FAILED calling Host->GetUSBDevices(CollPtr.asOutParam()) at line 2911! [!] Primary RC = NS_ERROR_NOT_IMPLEMENTED (0x80004001) - Not implemented [!] Full error info present: false, basic error info present: false

timmy@Black-Rose:~$ VBoxManage showvminfo "Lily Rose" VirtualBox Command Line Management Interface Version 2.0.4_OSE (C) 2005-2008 Sun Microsystems, Inc. All rights reserved.

Name: Lily Rose Guest OS: Windows XP UUID: f0d4a020-4f96-46e2-9408-a9c1555ab053 Config file: /home/timmy/.VirtualBox/Machines/Lily Rose/Lily Rose.xml Memory size: 1500MB VRAM size: 16MB Boot menu mode: message and menu ACPI: on IOAPIC: off PAE: off Time offset: 0 ms Hardw. virt.ext: off Nested Paging: off State: powered off (since 2009-02-20T00:34:18.000000000) Monitor count: 1 Floppy: empty Primary master: /home/timmy/.VirtualBox/Machines/Lily Rose/Snapshots/{f65cddf8-d56b-42ff-abc1-4b658a28ec96}.vdi (UUID: f65cddf8-d56b-42ff-abc1-4b658a28ec96) DVD: Host drive /dev/scd0 (passthrough enabled) NIC 1: MAC: 080027BEF219, Attachment: NAT, Cable connected: on, Trace: off (file: none), Type: Am79C973, Reported speed: 0 Mbps NIC 2: disabled NIC 3: disabled NIC 4: disabled UART 1: disabled UART 2: disabled Audio: enabled (Driver: Null, Controller: AC97) Clipboard Mode: Bidirectional Shared folders:

Name: 'Documents', Host path: '/home/timmy/Documents' (machine mapping), writable

Guest:

Statistics update: disabled

Snapshots:

Name: Basic Registered Win XP (UUID: 12196434-2f9b-4f0c-adec-1b192a81a7f2)

Name: Win XP with McAfee installed (UUID: 95e0f6c6-ac23-481e-9198-cae8752eb645)

Name: Win XP plus Install dir (UUID: 369ece1b-fe78-4911-a159-8e499e225d08)

Name: Win XP Av & Tim plus guest (UUID: ab8cbb0e-10db-4699-9af7-a79ecb2a674d)

Name: Now includes Office 2007 (UUID: 94e3c17f-a9a6-4255-bb6c-dfd7d3c5d207)

Name: And now Acronis installed (UUID: 35820f77-5dfb-4c74-94ac-02a1ac4edb64)

[Michael Thayer]

I'm afraid that the OSE version of VirtualBox does not have USB support - you will have to install the version from virtualbox.org for that.