It’s been 2 days that I’m on the virtualization of Windows with VirtualBox and I break my nose on USB devices.
They are not recognized in USB tab.
I’m on VirtualBox 6.1.30 and I managed (not without pain) to install the extension package for that version (from AUR - with the official package I am asked for a password that I do not know).
I also installed the VirtualBox-Guest-ISO and VirtualBox-Guest-Utilities packages, I added myself in the VBoxusers group and restarted the machine.
The USB 2.0 and USB 3.0 options finally appeared but no device appears. I also tried to connect only once the VM launched but nothing is detected.
Access the Devices → USB menu in VirtualBox Machine Window or USB menu item in the status bar. Select the USB device to mount in the virtual machine. USB devices
I’m not sure to be understood, that’s the issue i’m posting for: there’s no devices in that tab.
… not filters (plural) - a filter
then apply and you should be good to boot the VM
or take the second option and select your host USB bus
or plug in your device - it will then appear in the filter list and you can add that one specifically …
you are member of the vboxusers group?
modules are loaded?
Settings → USB tab
enable the checkbox “Enable USB Controller”
select either USB 2.0 or USB 3.0
then you should be able to add a filter from the row of little icons below and right of that
If that does not work
you need to re-check your whole installation procedure, retrace your steps
virtual box and the host modules corresponding to the kernel version you are running on
then the extension pack - without it you’ll only have USB 1.1
the version of this one is critical - it should match the virtualbox version
This can be a problem in Manjaro, where the virtualbox may be a lower version than the host modules available from the AUR!
As stated earlier the options are available since i installed the pack (same version than Virtualbox). It even appears in the Extension Tab with the right version number in Settings.
Is there anything command that would allow me to troubleshoot this? I already gave all the details in the OP and it really doesn’t work like that. Hence my post.
Nothing I know of.
The only thing that I could find quickly was the recommendation to boot the windows machine and let it sit a while to autodetect the virtualized USB ports and install drivers for it.
But that doesn’t seem to be the problem, rather the host USB is not picked up by virtualbox for some reason.
I would like to, but I really don’t … know.
Sorry!
Thanks for your help, i’ll wait if someone comes around here with an idea. I was sweating a bit to install the VM and now i bump into this without any idea what to do… frustrating.
Thanks for your help.
I did install [linux515-virtualbox-host-modules-6.1.32-1 and checked again i was in the the group.
After a reboot i have a message that says " failed to load kernel modules".
When i check i have this return:
systemd-modules-load.service - Load Kernel Modules
Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/systemd-modules-load.se>
Active: failed (Result: exit-code) since Thu 2022-01-20 06:45:3>
Docs: man:systemd-modules-load.service(8)
man:modules-load.d(5)
Process: 244 ExecStart=/usr/lib/systemd/systemd-modules-load (co>
Main PID: 244 (code=exited, status=1/FAILURE)
CPU: 238ms
jan 20 06:45:31 matmat systemd-modules-load[244]: Failed to insert m>
jan 20 06:45:31 matmat systemd-modules-load[244]: Failed to insert m>
jan 20 06:45:31 matmat systemd-modules-load[244]: Failed to find mod>
jan 20 06:45:31 matmat systemd-modules-load[244]: Failed to find mod>
jan 20 06:45:31 matmat systemd-modules-load[244]: Failed to insert m>
jan 20 06:45:31 matmat systemd-modules-load[244]: Failed to insert m>
jan 20 06:45:31 matmat systemd-modules-load[244]: Failed to insert m>
jan 20 06:45:31 matmat systemd[1]: systemd-modules-load.service: Mai>
jan 20 06:45:31 matmat systemd[1]: systemd-modules-load.service: Fai>
jan 20 06:45:31 matmat systemd[1]: Failed to start Load Kernel Modules>
~
Impossible to load the modules with a sudo modprobe vboxdrv.
The good point is that i can now see the USB devices in the tab within Virtualbox … but i cannot launch it anymore.
I think you need all the others linux515 packages to get the modules working,for example if you run this it will output all the linux515 packages thats need upgraded (compare it with Branch Compare)
pacman -Q | grep linux515
If you want,you can switch to unstable branch,update the system so you can get all the updated packages at once and then return to stable branch so you don’t have to deal with upgrading single packages and be in a partial-upgrade system.
You can also do a backup with Timeshift in case something happens you can rollback to the stable branch you were before.
After update,reboot and now with the upgraded linux515 packages,the kernel modules should be loaded fine,meaning virtualbox should run now,you can switch to stable branch if you want.
I don’t understand why i should upgrade all the system when switching to unstable.
Can’t I just switch to unstable and upgrade only the linux515 packages?
I don’t have enough disk space to use Time Shift at the moment.
USB devices