Call for Testers: VirtualBox 4.0.4

[Michael Butler]

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On 02/23/11 05:32, Bernhard Froehlich wrote:
>> I'm now at r1226 and this is *awesome* .. I can now see (and use!) my
>> external USB drives from within a VirtualBox guest .. thanks!

> Thats great! Can you share which Host and Guest you use? I've tried it
> with a few USB sticks and had some problems mounting them in the guest
> so it's not working perfectly yet.

After testing a little more extensively:

Host is -current (SVN r218976) on an aging Toshiba laptop (T2300 CPU)

With a 2.5" SATA drive attached to a SunPlus USB2 to SATA bridge:

Guests that work are: Windows XP (SP3?), Windows XP MCE

Guests that don't: Windows Server 2003, Windows-7, Windows 7 SP1, CentOS 5.5

The failing Windows guests complain that the service 'USBSTOR' won't
start. Under 'Device Manager', the 'USB Mass Storage' driver does appear
but with a (triangular yellow) warning symbol.

Same results with a 4GB Verbatim Store'n'Go USB stick.

Even so - I think this is a *huge* step forward :-)

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