I\'m kind of new to the whole porting issue and I got to it because of the slowness in the emulator provided with the Android SDK.
I downloaded the android-x86-3.2-R
Check the drivers compiled in the kernel. That must be the reason.IIRC you had to have the drivers for VirtualBox compiled in the kernel (or as a module) to get that to work. As Honeycomb was, according to Google, a mess, I wouldn't doubt that the kernel doesn't have that support. I'll try to check on that myself later today and I'll update this answer accordingly.