iPod not showing in Vbox XP

[motorcity909]

Hi all

Hope someone can help with this problem.

I have an 80gb iPod Classic which I manage in iTunes on Windows XP in Virtualbox, complete with Guest Additions installed.

Last time I used it was last Sunday (13th) and it worked fine and I added some new music to the iPod.

I've gone to do the same tonight and instead of the iPod appearing in iTunes, it mounts on the host Xubuntu 12.04 and a Thunar window opens showing the iPod contents.

Back on the Virtual XP, USB is enabled including the iPod - see screenshot 1

but no devices appear - see screenshot 2 - whereas previously the iPod showed up as did my USB mouse (which is working fine in V'box)

I recall that the latter Devices menu was how I first added the iPod filter to my virtual XP - see screenshot 3

I've updated Virtualbox to 4.2.6 tonight but no change.

Unmounting it from the host doesn't do anything either.

So, any thoughts on how I get my iPod to show up again?

Over the years I've tried various Linux-only ways to manage my iPod but they've all messed up my iPod so I really like this virtual solution hence I would like to sort it, so no need for "use banshee/rhythmbox/others" suggestions

Many thanks
Dave