Bug 16305

Summary:	VirtualBox USB device filters are not supported on M5
Product:	Mageia	Reporter:	William Kenney <wilcal.int>
Component:	RPM Packages	Assignee:	Thomas Backlund <tmb>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED	QA Contact:
Severity:	normal
Priority:	Normal	CC:	tablackwell
Version:	5
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	i586
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Source RPM:	virtualbox	CVE:
Status comment:

Description William Kenney 2015-07-06 16:51:35 CEST

Description of problem:

Attempt to create a USB device filter for a VirtualBox Client
It appears that M5/VirtualBox does not see USB devices resulting
in that you cannot create a USB device filter for a client.
Seems to continue to work just fine on M4.

Reproducible: 

Steps to Reproduce:

William Kenney 2015-07-06 16:52:23 CEST

Summary: VirtualBox device filters are not supported on M5 => VirtualBox USB device filters are not supported on M5

Comment 1 William Kenney 2015-07-06 16:54:16 CEST

Vbox 4.3.28.1 is used on both arch's.

Samuel Verschelde 2015-07-06 17:08:14 CEST

Assignee: bugsquad => tmb
Source RPM: (none) => virtualbox

Comment 2 Tony Blackwell 2015-07-06 19:25:16 CEST

I'm up early trying to debug the same issue on M5 x86_64 from Classical install, so yes, I may have the same problem.  More data shortly.
Tony

CC: (none) => tablackwell

Comment 3 Manuel Hiebel 2015-07-06 19:49:17 CEST

indeed, and iirc it is was working previonsly (cauldron)

Comment 4 Tony Blackwell 2015-07-06 19:59:38 CEST

Claire's qa comment was relevant - I'd forgotten to add vboxusers group in this one of several installations.  After logging out, seem OK now.

Comment 5 William Kenney 2015-07-07 16:59:03 CEST

Download Oracle_VM_VirtualBox_Extension_Pack-4.2.28-97679.vbox-extpack
from: https://virtualbox.org/wiki/Downloads

in a su terminal run command:
VBoxManage extpack install Oracle_VM_VirtualBox_Extension_Pack-4.2.28-97679.vbox-extpack

Add user to vboxusers Group

Reboot system for good measure.

Vbox client now can be assigned USB devices.

Test platform:
Intel Core i7-2600K Sandy Bridge 3.4GHz
GIGABYTE GA-Z68X-UD3-B3 LGA 1155 MoBo
GIGABYTE GV-N440D3-1GI Nvidia GeForce GT 440 (Fermi) 1GB
RTL8111/8168B PCI Express 1Gbit Ethernet
DRAM 16GB (4 x 4GB)
Mageia 4 64-bit, Nvidia driver
virtualbox-4.3.26-1.mga4.x86_64
virtualbox-guest-additions-4.3.26-1.mga4.x86_64

Status: NEW => RESOLVED
Resolution: (none) => FIXED

Comment 6 Tony Blackwell 2015-07-13 00:29:02 CEST

What we really need here is vbox version 5 as it gets out of RC and as tmb has time.  Current vbox doesn't support usb3 (version 5 does) which is now universal on new hardware.

Comment 7 Tony Blackwell 2015-07-13 00:47:46 CEST

Correction: I'm wrong in the perspective what I just said; there is backwards support of USB2, but no support of USB3 devices.  We still need version 5 for this.