On 02/23/2012 11:49 PM, Dave Close wrote:
I thought the same thing. As I read the documentation, that's exactly what a filter is supposed to do. But I have a "blank" filter, which claims it will connect any USB device, and that doesn't happen. My guest doesn't see the device until I select it in the guest menu. It's that problem which prompted my initial request for help.
In my case, I have only one guest. I'm only running VBox because the application won't run on a recent Fedora release and the hardware won't work with an old release. Solution, run the old release as a guest under the new release. But the application needs to use the flash drive.
As Richard said, you can't use a blank filter for this. You need specific filters for the device that you want to automatically connect.
I'd not used USB filters in a long time since in early implementations I found it buggy. So, today I verified that it works as expected if you have those specific filters defined.
Ed