[OpenIndiana-discuss] VirtualBox 5.1.6 issue reported

[russell]

Hi,

After creating a backup BE and updating the backup to VirtualBox 5.1.6 I 
investigated further why all my VBox aborted on start up.
It appears that VirtualBox defaults to enabling a USB 1.1 controller 
with a VM prior to VirtualBox 5.1, in VirtualBox 5.1 this USB controller 
is upgraded to a USB 2.0 controller which requires a Oracle VirtualBox 
Extensions to be installed. To boot the VM just disable the USB 
controller so that the extensions can be installed, after installation 
the USB Controller can be re-enabled.

It is a pity that the original VB settings are not honoured when 
upgrading to VirtualBox 5.1.6 so that this problem does not occur.

Regards

Russell