Comments on: How To Sync iPod Touch With Win XP Virtual Machine In Ubuntu Intrepid

By: john

john — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 09:31:39 +0000

Hi,
All went well until I typed in “sudo apt-get install linux-source-2.6.28 build-essential”.
It then came back with E: Couldn’t find package build.

Any ideas, would be grateful,

John

By: mo

mo — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 07:56:30 +0000

hi, i get this output when i run the command

make -C /lib/modules/`uname -r`/build/ M=`pwd` modules

make: Entering directory `/usr/src/linux-headers-2.6.27-7-generic’
CC [M] /home/mo/linux-source-2.6.27/drivers/usb/core/message.o
/home/mo/linux-source-2.6.27/drivers/usb/core/message.c: In function ‘usb_disable_device’:
/home/mo/linux-source-2.6.27/drivers/usb/core/message.c:1094: error: ‘struct usb_interface’ has no member named ‘unregistering’
make[1]: *** [/home/mo/linux-source-2.6.27/drivers/usb/core/message.o] Error 1
make: *** [_module_/home/mo/linux-source-2.6.27/drivers/usb/core] Error 2
make: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-headers-2.6.27-7-generic’

By: Bob

Bob — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 20:13:42 +0000

I just got a Touch 2G foir my birthday, and I wasn’t able to sync in Virtualbox up to about 3 minutes ago. I had the 0xE8000035 message in iTunes. Turns out that my USB support in VirtualBox was working, but that particular virtual machine was configured with USB 1.1 only, the option for 2.0 was not checked. After enabling that option, iTunes 8 works really nicely!

Thanks for the nice tutorial, it proved useful for debugging!

By: Gabriel

Gabriel — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 20:38:34 +0000

Hi, I have a some doubt, i had installed the win xp first and i was not configure the UsB port because i did not know what you said. So my doubt is i have to do the same thing or a diferent procedure to synchronizing mi ipod in Vbox Win Xp. another what i have to type in the following part make -C /lib/modules/`uname -r`/build/ M=`pwd` modules ‘uname -r’ i know what but in ‘pwd’ what i have to type there.

By: Lee

Lee — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 23:49:13 +0000

Thank you so much, this worked like magic for my iPod Touch 1G on 64-bit Intrepid. I’d seen other guides and was trying to avoid kernel stuff at all costs but this was easy as pie to follow. Cheers!

By: Carrie

Carrie — Tue, 27 Jan 2009 18:28:51 +0000

yes thanks you for replying, the number i get is the same as his 2.6.27-9 and when i enter 2.6.27 ( the code he gave) this is what i get

E: dpkg was interrupted, you must manually run ‘dpkg –configure -a’ to correct the problem.

any idea what that means?

By: Ben

Ben — Tue, 27 Jan 2009 18:25:26 +0000

@ Carrie. It means to take the number from the terminal, in his case it was 2.6.27-9. and put in in the code that is listed below. Which, in his case is

sudo apt-get build-dep linux-source-2.6.27

and

sudo apt-get install linux-source-2.6.27 build-essential

so if your number is 1.1.11-1 your source code would be

sudo apt-get build-dep linux-source-1.1.11 understand?

By: Carrie

Carrie — Tue, 27 Jan 2009 04:58:07 +0000

Hi so far ive been following your guide step by step however, i go to this step
“Next, using the kernel information you just obtained, install the source code of the kernel”
and i don’t know what to do from there.

can someone please help me?
thanks

By: RagnarGrimnar

RagnarGrimnar — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 23:01:14 +0000

Thx for the guide!
I have a problem, anyway.
I’m using the 8.10 Ubuntu in Italian.

When I try to update the kernel (sudo apt-get build-dep linux-source-2.6.27), the terminal gives me this error lines:
dpkg: syntax error: unknown group `uml-net’ in statoverride file
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (2)
E: Il calcolo delle dipendenze per la costruzione è fallito

Can u help me?

Gio

By: CesarS

CesarS — Sat, 10 Jan 2009 17:37:28 +0000

Big Tip!

Gracias

By: Daniel

Daniel — Fri, 02 Jan 2009 09:51:05 +0000

I just want to say super thanks. As someone who was gifted an ipod touch 2g and absolutely hates itunes i am forced to use it since no alternative software deals with the hashing algorithm for it. As such, I had two options, use my wife’s laptop which is annoying or get windows working on mine (whether by partitioning or VM). I’ll try the VM and see how it goes.

As a plus, i’m hoping i’ll also be able to do decent video editing again too, since all the video editing tools i’ve used in Ubuntu have been totally unstable. Apart from that i love Ubuntu, but the ipod and video editing have been my stumbling blocks.

Daniel

By: Damien

Damien — Mon, 29 Dec 2008 01:13:18 +0000

Glad it all work out for you.

By: Mikael

Mikael — Sun, 28 Dec 2008 08:44:48 +0000

Smooth sailing from here.

Got VB, Windows XP and OSX now running with my usb mouse and keyboard.
Even made my music and photos folders into network drive under the windows xp guest, so now I can work with my music and photos in Ubuntu and then just startup the winXP guest to sync.

Works like a charm
Thanks

By: Nicholas

Nicholas — Sat, 27 Dec 2008 20:07:33 +0000

Thanks to this article, I can now sync my Ipod touch 2G from Ubuntu 8.04 and Windows xp as a guest. Although Itunes in VB is a tab slow in a Pentium 4 2.8ghz 1gb RAM.

You need latest virtualbox version 2.1 I download it from http://www.virtualbox.org

By: Mikael

Mikael — Fri, 26 Dec 2008 09:15:28 +0000

OK got it fixed.

By finding a PS/2 mouse, and dragging dropping code, I was able to fix my problems, keyboard and mouse is now working.

By: Mikael

Mikael — Fri, 26 Dec 2008 08:11:21 +0000

Been searching all over, but can’t find a solution.

When I boot into the latest kernel of Ubuntu 8.10, I loose all usbports, this means that I can’t use either keyboard or mouse AT ALL. The same goes if I try to boot into recovery mode.

Now I can boot the older kernel (I can’t remember the numbers), where I do get USBports. Now how do I go about getting the latest kernel working again?

Since as of now I am unable to input anything to correct my system. And therefore also unable to rectify what you have put above.

Cheers
Mike

By: Damien

Damien — Fri, 26 Dec 2008 05:33:09 +0000

Theoretically, iPod 2G should work. But seriously, I have not tested before as I do not have a unit of iPod 2G. I am sorry to hear that your Ubuntu doesn’t detect it. I will see if I can find some information about it.

By: Damien

Damien — Fri, 26 Dec 2008 05:30:03 +0000

I have checked through the code. It seems that WordPress has condensed two dashes into one. One of the command should strip --strip-debug usbcore.ko. I have make the amendment in the article. Try to recompile the USB kernel again. Let me know if it works.

By: Q

Fri, 26 Dec 2008 02:58:30 +0000

Well, with the 2G touch, Ubuntu won’t even pick up the connected Ipod as a drive even though the ipod is charged. So Ubuntu doesn’t detect the 2G. What’s up with that or I’m wrong here? Please send me an email if you have a solution. Thanks.

By: Mikael

Mikael — Thu, 25 Dec 2008 21:35:26 +0000

I have the same problem as the above user, and honestly i did not notice if there were any errors.

Problem for is that my keyboard also uses USB and is not recognized aswell as my mouse, and now I am unable to do anything in Ubuntu 8.10.

Great guide though, but can you help us getting USB support back somehow.

Much appreciated.

Mikael