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On Mon, 2014-04-14 at 21:09 +0100, bad apple wrote: > On 14/04/14 20:48, George Parker wrote: > > I'm having trouble getting Vbox to see usb running Win XP. I run Mint 16 > > and had the supplied version 4.2 running with guest additions. I thought > > the extension pack might help but had compatibility issues. So, I > > installed latest version 4.31 with guest additions and extension pack > > with no joy. > > > > Anybody any suggestions? Could it be that my mouse is usb so not > > allowing the guest to use it? > > > > George > > > > I take it you mean "4.3.10"? Presuming that you are using the official > Oracle package (not the OSE version) and have the extension pack > installed, you shouldn't have any problems: I have several XP instances > running in VBox on Linux hosts with no issues. Did you fully purge all > of the old versions of VirtualBox prior to installing the latest version? > > Is your problem that you can't map physical USB devices to the XP VM > properly? That works here as well. > > Clarify a little bit so we can get to the bottom of it. > > Regards > I am running 4.3.2.r90405 with no trouble using USB in Xp do you see it in Devices? -- ________________________________________________________________________ Regards Kevin Lucas Minions Post Master(Sub) A dedicated Linux user /usr/bin/microsoft Skype minions_shop www.minionsbandb.co.uk www.tearooms.minionsbandb.co.uk FaceBook Minions_shop Po House, Minions, Liskeard Cornwall PL14 5LE 01579363386 -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/listfaq