Nikolai Cassanova: Help with usb devices in VirtualBox and OLE Objects (Kevin Olbrich)(Liam)

[Kevin Olbrich]

> Kevin:
> I don't use a hub, I have 3 usb ports on my laptop and one is usb 3.0
> while the other 2 i think are just regular usb 2.0.  Also when using just
> ubuntu I can access the device.
> 
> The virtual windows 7 sees the usb devices but doesn't install the drivers
> for them.  So i see error when i go to device manager in windows 7 and I
> am not allowed to use the usb device.  Should I enable usb 2.0 in
> virtualbox.

Okay, but did you install the guest additions? The driver package inside your vm?

Kevin.