Virtualbox USB stopped working after today's KDE patches

[Jumboag99]

Yesterday, I had no issues with My Microsoft USB wireless mouse and my VirtualBox WinXP Virtual Machine, Today I let adept update a whole slew of KDE packages and all of a sudden I'm having USB issues.

What's happening is as soon as I start the virtual machine up, my mouse stops working. (I have a laptop with a synaptics touchpad and the touchpad continues working just fine, but for some reason the mouse stops.) As soon as I exit the VM, the mouse starts working again.

Anybody aware of a new compatibility bug and/or a way around it?

[claydoh]

Re: Virtualbox USB stopped working after today's KDE patches

you might check over on virtualbox's forums, they may have more info in this. I had noticed a number of USB issues in recent distros last time i was looking there.

KDE's packages by themselves should really have no effect on virtulbox/mouse performance as they both are independent of the desktop environment, but another package that may have been updated and not specific to KDE is more likely the culprit here.

[Nate]

Re: Virtualbox USB stopped working after today's KDE patches

Or maybe a new version of virtualbox was one of the things upgraded by adept?

[claydoh]

Re: Virtualbox USB stopped working after today's KDE patches

Nope, not for gutsy at least. There is the newest version in Hardy, though