Aug. 27, 2008
I recently changed mobile phones from my LG KS20 to a Nokia E71. All in all I am very pleased with the change to Nokia and I must say that I am truly impressed with this model. Well, except for PC suite not working with Virtualbox ofcourse 
I don't know whos to blame but the software does not want to connect to my phone over USB. It finds the phone and installs all the right drivers but once PC Suite tries to connect I get "PC Suite does not regcognise the connected phone. The connection between the PC and phone failed, error code 0x80044403. Switch of your phone, switch it on, and try again."
I am running the latest PC Suite 7.0.8.2 on Windows XP in Virtualbox 1.6.4. My current workaround is to connect to the phone over bluetooth from the same Virtual XP installation using a USB Bluetooth dongle. I must say that this part is a bit of a pain in the ..... Well, I guess you can't have it all.
The issue has been reported at both Virtualbox and Nokia forums so hopefully there will be a fix soon.
2 Responses to “Virtualbox and Nokia PC Suite”
Hi there
you need to make your usb filters visible to windows xp, since when you install it virtually they are not visible straight away. but a bit of permission file editing in ubuntu will do the trick.
Follow this link and you’ll be able to have usb filters working in xp as well as they already are under ubuntu.
http://danmarner.blogspot.com/2008/06/installing-virtualbox-162-on-ubuntu-804.html
By Lex on Sep 16, 2008
Hi Lex,
The devices are actually showing in XP as I made the proper adjustments in Ubuntu. I even described the process here http://patrik.cqure.net/wordpress/2008/06/15/virtualization-with-virtualbox-162/
However, even though XP sees the devices it fails to sync. There is a 1-year old bug report on the problem here http://www.virtualbox.org/ticket/470. Some ambitious guys have even sniffed the USB interface and found some differences in communication when running under Virtualbox.
So hopefully this will be addressed in future versions of the software.
/Patrik
By Patrik on Sep 16, 2008