Comments on: Fixing USB on VirtualBox to allow iPhone Sync with an Ubuntu host running Windows XP

By: benny

benny — Mon, 24 Aug 2009 15:33:22 +0000

uhm, i am really sorry, i must be really stupid, but where is the actual script now?
i have already installed virtualbox, so i didnt copy the commands you posted 1:1.
As far as i can read, after installing virtualbox, you simply write “and now run the script”.
I must have missed something, could someone tell me how to get the actual script?
thanks a lot in advance
benny

By: Faeryan

Faeryan — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 12:05:55 +0000

Oops.. The kernel I was using was of course 2.6.27.11, not 2.6.26.11 as I told earlier.

I’ve upgraded to Jaunty and kernel 2.6.28.13 after my last iPhone connect so I’m not sure if it works with my current kernel.

By: Faeryan

Faeryan — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 12:03:35 +0000

I just stumbled upon this when reading someone’s blog.
I’m running a VirtualBox 2.2.4 r47978 (or 2.24, not sure about that cause of the font) and on it a Windows 7 free trial version and I can sync my iPhone with it no problems.

I was wondering whether it’s my Ubuntu kernel (2.6.26.11) or the version of my VirtualBox or even Windows 7 that did it for me.

By: Magoraf

Magoraf — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 18:20:53 +0000

Ubuntu 9.04 Jaunty
Kernel 2.6.28
Virtualbox 2.1.4

I have the following problem during the script execution :

strip: ‘usbcore.ko’: No such file

I have already used this script several times with the previous version of Ubuntu (8.10 Intrepid), but since I updated to the new version/kernel, it doesn’t work anymore
Please HELP!

By: Chaanakya

Chaanakya — Mon, 16 Feb 2009 20:37:42 +0000

I had this problem once. I just deleted that file and all was well. Did you have virtualbox installed, upgrade, and reinstall? I downgraded from Intrepid to Hardy, and I had this problem, but once I deleted that file, everything worked fine.

By: Matt

Matt — Sat, 14 Feb 2009 17:55:21 +0000

boban: To fix this error, delete the folder .VirtualBox in your home directory and then restart VB. Worked for me.

By: boban

boban — Sun, 25 Jan 2009 15:29:01 +0000

hi, after rebooting I just tried to start Virtualbox and it says
critical error:
could not load the settings file ‘/home/boban/.VirtualBox/VirtualBox.xml’
Cannot convert settings from version ’1.6-linux’.
The source version is not supported.

Fehlercode:
NS_ERROR_FAILURE (0×80004005)
Komponente:
VirtualBox
Interface:
IVirtualBox {557a07bc-e6ae-4520-a361-4a8493199137}

can you help?

By: lucas

lucas — Sun, 28 Dec 2008 00:20:55 +0000

I was having the same problem with some earlier version of VirtualBox. I just installed
VirtualBox 2.0.6 from the repository as you instructed on Ubuntu 8.10 on a Lenovo SL300 and am running Windows XP SP3 and all worked without having to run your script at all.
Sweet!
And thanks!

By: huanix

huanix — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 11:49:15 +0000

@BLWedge09 – I actually had a very different experience. The phone did go into recovery mode and I right clicked on the USB icon in VirtualBox and connected the device in recovery mode. Even wrote a post about it: http://www.huanix.com/2008/11/23/you-can-upgrade-and-restore-apple-iphone-firmware-in-a-virtualbox-machine/

By: BLWedge09

BLWedge09 — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 04:39:10 +0000

Just a word of advice from someone who now has experience with this… Don’t attempt to update the iphone software this way. Once the phone goes into recovery mode (itunes logo on the screen) ubuntu unmounts it (or thinks you have disconnected it) making it impossible to update the software. The phone will be stuck in recovery mode until you can connect it to another pc with itunes (not in a vm). Luckily, I was able to copy all of my itunes data, including the phone backup and library, over to my work XP laptop, set up the same shared drive I had in the VM and restore from a backup I made. Phew! I was worried there for a few minutes…