Upgrading to 16.04

[Peter]

On 24/08/16 02:59, Liam Proven wrote:
> On 23 August 2016 at 17:01, Peter <petergoggin at bigpond.com> wrote:
>> Just a thought about my problems with VirtualBox seeing usb devices. All of
>> my laptops are IBM Lenovo Thinkpads. Is it possible there is an
>> incompatibility between the way the Ubuntu handles these ports and the way
>> the VirtualBox is expecting them to handled?
>
> No. It works fine on my Thinkpads, and most Ubuntu development is done
> on Thinkpads.
>
> But for USB2 or USB3, you need the VB extension pack installed. Only
> USB1 works in the plain FOSS core program.
>
I have installed the latest 5.1 virtual box with the extension pack. 
With  both the original and the new machine I created the usb settings 
window is greyed out in the top area not allowing me to change the 
settings, in the old machine it is set to usb 2. The list of devices 
shown are those that were connected when the virtualbox was last 
shutdown in Ubuntu 14.04. If I try to add a new device it says no 
devices available. None of the devices work in the virtual machine. 
However all of the devices are available at the Ubuntu level.

Withe the new machine the usb settings are greyed out and the usb is set 
to 1.1. I cannot add any device.

There is obviously a disconnect between the physical usb ports and the 
virtual boxes.
  In the old machine windows internet explorer  cannot access the 
internet, but a program i use for FreeBMD transcriptions has no problem 
in uploading files.

I feel I must have missed an obvious step, but I followed the install 
instructions for 5.1 to the letter and I installed the extension pack.

Has anyone else had trouble in getting USB ports to work?

Regards

Peter