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Like many people, I'm having challenges getting USB, specifically my USB mouse (Logitech M305 wireless) to work in VirtualBox.
My setup: Dell E6320 laptop. I have a WinXP VM that was previously used with VMware Player. I am now booting the vmdk file with VirtualBox. The VM seems to boot fine. The following vbox packages installed:
$ pacman -Q|grep -i virtualbox
virtualbox 4.2.8-1
virtualbox-ext-oracle 4.2.8-1
virtualbox-ext-vnc 4.2.8-1
virtualbox-guest-dkms 4.2.8-1
virtualbox-guest-iso 4.2.8-1
virtualbox-guest-modules 4.2.8-1
virtualbox-guest-modules-lts 4.2.8-1
virtualbox-guest-utils 4.2.8-1
virtualbox-host-dkms 4.2.8-1
virtualbox-host-modules 4.2.8-1
virtualbox-host-modules-lts 4.2.8-1
$
The vboxdvr module is being loaded at boot time and I am a member of the vboxusers group. I have rebooted and confirmed these settings.
If I start VirtualBox with "VBOX_USB=usbfs" as suggested in the wiki article then:
Trying to access the VM's settings gets me the following error:
I get that error whether EHCI is enabled or not.
The VM boots fine, but no USB devices show up under Devices -> USB Devices.
Unsetting VBOX_USB eliminates the error above, and all my USB devices show up under Devices -> USB Devices but actually attaching the mouse's transceiver (Devices->USB Devices->) does not work as desired: When I click the mouse inside the VM window, the mouse pointer is successfully captured and the capture icon indicates this. But the mouse pointer will not move. Likewise for the touchpad and the DualPoint stick. No mouse activity at all.
Also, with the mouse captured, hitting CTRL+ALT_DEL to log into the XP VM just releases the mouse as if I had hit the right CTRL button instead.
I've read a bunch of previous posts on this, read the wiki articles, but nothing seems to be working for me. I'm still looking but if anyone has other ideas, I'd appreciate the help. VMware Player is no longer free for commercial use so I am trying to switch to VirtualBox.

ewaller wrote:
med1972 wrote:This VM is an appliance of sorts. A standard XP build issued to us Linux users. So I can't do a fresh install, but you've given me an idea; I have the zip file with the VM "appliance" as originally issued.
Um, would you care to explain where this came from and by what licence you have the right to use this "XP appliance of sorts"? Without that information, I, or one of my fellow moderators, will be shutting down this thread.
Our policy
Wow. Well, first I don't owe you an explanation for "where this came from and by what license I have a right to use [it]". Do you work for Microsoft? Are you my sales rep? Are you some sort of special authority charged with policing Microsoft licensing? This is the single weirdest response I've ever gotten on any forum, icq channel, support channel etc.
Nonetheless, I work for a major insurance company which has all the necessary licensing. The rest is none of your business. This "appliance of sorts" is simply one of our corporate standard builds of a Windows desktop in VM form so provided to those of us who don't run Windows as our primary OS which I am in the process of trying to get to run under vbox because VMware has made VMware Player free only for non-commercial use. You know, making sure we're on the right side of the law and all with licensing.
I might suggest a different choice of language next time you feel the need to inquire. Perhaps some simple like "Can you please confirm for us here that you are properly licensed to run this software? Thanks."
I do appreciate the help though. I've almost got this thing working.
Last edited by med1972 (2013-03-13 23:46:57)

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