VirtualBox No iPhone USB Support 1.5.6

Posted on March 5, 2008 by nseidm1.
Categories: iPhone, iTunes, mac, support, usb, virtualbox.

VirtualBox LogoThe 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.

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VirtualBox Host Networking Set Host Static Local IP

Posted on December 5, 2007 by nseidm1.
Categories: Router, dhcp, host networking, mac, static IP, virtualbox.

If you are running a guest operating system, and are utilizing host networking via a bridge and tap, you should set the host IP address statically. On my other machine I was able to utilize DHCP for the host IP, but on this machine when the guest IP address is set the host has trouble DHCP’ing and new IP address.

Overall setting IP address statically is important to keep track of utilized and available IP addresses. DHCP is really only useful in practice when anonymous machines are connecting and the MAC addresses are new to the router.

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