[SOLVED] Virtual box ipod touch / iphone sync

[asphixmx]

Hello everyone. I am trying to sync my iPod Touch with iTunes, using Virtualbox, also with Parallels 2.2 and no luck. WIndows can see the iPod, but when I open iTunes, it says can't sync with iPhone because of an unknown error. I tried to stop the Apple Mobile Device Service, then started again... iTunes says the same.
I have been reading and searching a lot trying to find a solution with no luck. Is there anyone working with Ipod touch / iphone AND iTunes in a virtual machine? VMWare, Wine, Virtual Box, Parallels...anything?
I just don't want to use my windows partition anymore... I am using it just for sync.

Yes, yes... I can sync my songs with Amarok, but since it is wireless, it is sooo slow. Also my contacts and appoinments don't sync. That is why I need iTunes and Outlook.

Any idea? Any one?

Thanks!

[azanutta]

same problem.
no solution jet =((

[myusername]

Exactly my problem...

[fdelosrios]

Mine even crashes when I plug it. I hope someone comes up with a solution because wireless sync is too slow.

[AndThenWhat]

I also have this problem on hardy. While browsing online I saw that someone submitted a ticket on the virtual box website for this exact problem on April 14th. Hopefully, they will be working on this and fix it soon.

[ajkiwi88]

hey
sorry to bump an old thread was wondering if their is a solution to this problem yet i am using ubuntu 8.04 and the latest virtual box

[asphixmx]

ajkiwi, I am syncing with gtkpod (music, videos), funambol (contacts) using wireless. At this time, there is not yet a solution with itunes (vbox).

[Im_Original]

Hey everybody,

I just got an iPod touch, so I'm wondering about this too. I found this:

http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=61683

Which basically says "you can't use the iPod with iTunes in a VM" and doesn't say why. So, it looks like a problem with iTunes which means . . . it will never be fixed.

Oh well.

[asphixmx]

I can sync now, with VMWARE Workstation 6.04 (instead of Virtual Box), in a virtual machine of Windows XP & iTunes. I activated USB 2.0 support in the Vmware. No problems at all, ipod touch is recognized with no problems, everything runs fine now with VMware. Sorry for VirtualBox, VMWare won this time!

[Im_Original]

well, that's good news. VMWare, here I come!