VirtualBox 1.6 iPhone Passthrough Still Fails

Even with the new release of VirtualBox 1.6 the iPhone is still not working with iTunes. The same error is occuring, which forces iPhone users to maintain their dual boot capabilities with a Windows OS. My excitment was high for the 1.6 version of VirtualBox. I am eager to dump my Windows partition to free up hard drive space, and this requires a functional iTunes in VirtualBox. This issue will inevitably be resolved, and therefore patients is required.

VirtualBox No iPhone USB Support 1.5.6

The USB iPhone driver is not currently compatible with VirtualBox. It causes an error that does not allows iTunes to connect to the iPhone. Obviously this is incredibly frusterating for all Linux users that own an iPhone. Luckily I had Windows Vista installed on my laptop and was able to activate the iPhone completely. Then I backed up all my music and videos, installed Ubuntu, cloned by backed-up Windows XP guest OS, installed iTunes, and viola no iPhone support.

You’ll get some message like 0xe8000001 or something of the sort when you plug your iPhone in. This is extremely frustrating. There is no Linux support by MAC, and VirtualBox is not resolving this issue in a timely manner. It seems that this has been an issue for some months now; this can easily be observed by the frustration in the VirtualBox forums and others.