Sometime back I explained, In this post I will explain you how to use the host USB device from the guest. First Thing First: VirtualBox is distributed in both closed source (binary) and open source (GPL V2) editions. Note that the open source edition does not provide USB support. Please refer to for more information. Thanks fo r letting me know about this missing piece of information. For this post I will show you how you can use the USB Thumb Drive connected to host USB port from guest OS. The procedure remains same for other USB devices as well. Even though Virtual Box allows you to enter lot of information for USB device configuration you really don’t have to worry about it if you just want to access the selected device. VirtualBox Configuration: Before going to actual configuration ensure that the USB device you want access from guest is connected. Once the device is detected by your host OS, open the USB configuration options dialog for the guest’s virtual machine in Virtual Box. Check “Enable USB Controller” check box. If the device is USB 2.0 complaint check “Enable USB 2.0 (EHCI) Controller check box. Now the USB Configuration Dialog Box will should look like the image below. Basic USB Configuration Without Any Filters 2. Now we need to tell virtual box which USB device(s) connected to host should be accessible from guest. This is done using the USB filters, only the device which matches the filter are accessible from the guest. Virtual box allows you to create filter based on vendor or product category and so on but we will ignore all that in this post and create filter which matches to exactly one and only one device that we want to share. So while on the USB configuration options dialog box press “Alt+Ins” or click on “Add Filter From Device” button (Second button from top with green plus symbol). This will bring the pop-up menu with all USB devices connected to the host (See image below). One more filter Now we are all set to see it working, Whatever we have done till now is one time procedure and this need not be repeated when you remove and reconnect your USB device. However, there is one more one time activity that will happen when you start the virtual machine. ![]() USB Driver Installation: Virtual Box provides its own USB drivers to provide this access so when you start the virtual machine using the USB devices on the host, windows might ask you to install these driver, Nothing to worry everything required is already installed with Virtual Box. As soon as you start the virtual machine, Windows will pop-up a Found New Hardware Wizard as shown below. USB driver compatibility check 4. You will get the successful completion dialog box for the driver installation, close that dialog box and your virtual machine will continue with booting operation. You might have to do this again if you connect the same device to some other USB port on the computer. Verification Under Guest OS: Now we will have to verify whether the device is accessible from the guest or not first before trying to access it. Before doing any other verification, lets ensure that virtual machine is able to find our devices. To do this start your virtual machine and move the mouse over a small USB icon in lower right corner of the virtual machine, If you have done everything correctly and the devices are attached to the computer you should be able to see the list of accessible devices in the tooltip as shown in the image below. Remember this is the first check, you don’t have to do anything else except running your virtual machine. List of accessible USB devices 2. From this point onwards I will provide kubuntu (Linux) specific information as my guest OS is Kubuntu. Now we know that virtual box was able to find the two USB devices we have selected now we will verify whether the OS is able to find them as well. So open the konsole and type lsusb, this command will give you a list of available USB devices (see the image below). If you are able to see you device here it means you are all set to use it. If your device is not the FLASH drive, you can stop here you are ready to use it using your application program. List of accessible USB devices 3. Kubuntu will find the new USB Flash drive and mount it automatically. How to enable usb wireless on vm virtualbox. Samstalker Jul 2, 2015, 3:50 PM. Solved How to enable the front USB ports; How to enable Wireless capability?? Aug 07, 2015 Enabling USB ports in Oracle Virtualbox versions 4 & 5. Or USB 3.0 ports (version 5), so that the attached devices communicate with the guest OS. ![]() ![]() Else you can find the the device id for it and mount it on your own. To find the device id go to konsole again and type “dmesg”, you should get output something like like. [ 499.706571] usb 1-2: new full speed USB device using ohci_hcd and address 3 [ 500.708306] usb 1-2: not running at top speed; connect to a high speed hub [ 500.727836] usb 1-2: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice [ 501.112837] usbcore: registered new interface driver libusual [ 501.313497] Initializing USB Mass Storage driver. ![]() [ 501.340048] scsi0: SCSI emulation for USB Mass Storage devices [ 501.355083] usbcore: registered new interface driver usb-storage [ 501.356713] USB Mass Storage support registered. Mount the USB Drive See the difference between output of first and second mount command, our USB drive is mount at /media/USBDrive in the output of second mount command. Now just go to /media/USBDrive and you will be able to see the contents of the flash drive. To remove the drive, click on the drive icon and select safely remove, our issue the umount command. Final Thoughts: 1. Once everything works fine after the first boot, you don’t have to have connected your USB devices before starting the virtual machine, you can connect them after the virtual machine is started and remove them before closing the virtual machine just like a physical computer. Generally the Device will not be accessible from the host once the virtual machine is started. Sometimes the device is not accessible from the host even after virtual machine is closed, if this happens remove the device and re-connect it. Links Related to This Post: • • •. I’m experiencing problems. I have ASUS F3J series notebook. Running Ubuntu 10.04 (fully updated 28Jul10). VirtualBox is 3.2.6 r63112. USB memory stick is a SanDisk cruzer colors+ 2GB. Guest OS is Win XP SP3. VirtualBox shows for USB device filter = 1 (1 Active). Jul 30, 2009 Windows Virtual PC supports the use of USB 2.0 devices by sharing the device or by redirecting it to the virtual machine. The method to use depends on the. If you're already using the VB version with the USB extension, you need to go to Settings->USB and enable the specific device you want to connect (while the guest system is not running). This enables VB to capture the USB port when that device is plugged in. Lastly, the correct group is called vboxusers,. Activate USB support in VirtualBox Manager Shut down your virtual machine and open USB settings in the VirtualBox Manager. Tick Enable USB Controllerand USB 2.0 (EHCI) Controller or USB 3.0 (xHCI) Controller. When XP starts it does not detect presence of USB device. “Add New Hardware” in control panel does not detect the presence of a USB device. USB device is shown in grey in guest machine when USB icon is clicked and it can be ticked to make it “On”. Sincere thanks for your effort in producing a fine tutorial. Any hints would be warmly accepted. Wishing you well for the future. Yes, Win7 is the host where i have installed VirtualBox. RHEL5 is the guest OS within VitrualBox. USB devices are working fine with in Windows7. But i try to mount that USB device by right clicking on the Virtualbox option(bottom right of VB) where we CD, USB, network option it throws an error “failed to attach the usb device Unknown s?device to the virtual machine. USB device HP v165w with UUID is busy with a previous request”. I have checked that no files are being opened from the USB but still get the same even if i reconnect, reboot. Any idea how to fix this? I think it is important to note that there may be hardware limitations involved. I was attempting to get a Samsung Galaxy Tab 7+ hooked via USB to WinXp-SP3 in VirtualBox running on OS X 10.6.8. It was complete no go. The device popped up in VirtualBox as “Android [0400]” but wouldn’t go further than that no matter what. And when I launched WinXP-SP3 in VirtualBox, all WinXP kept telling me was that the device could not be mounted. It knew it was there but could not speak to it. I followed all instructions in this article, and it was easy to do. But in some cases, it just isn’t going to work. I’ve tested the same device in an old notebook running WinXP-SP3, and it mounts instantly, showing both internal and external SD cards. VirtualBox is great, but there’s no getting around that a vm’ed environment is dependent upon the host environment, its drivers, and its hardware. Apple is notorious for not wanting any but their own devices to connect to their own devices, and with newer platforms of Android stripped down to MTP protocol, don’t blame the author here if something doesn’t work for your. Welcome to war between Apple, Microsoft and Google. HI I am working in IT Company as a software tester, and i am using Virtual Machine for my application because application is in 8 language and i want to check functionality of application in different language with different operating system. And there is one special functionality in application that is working after the connection of some hard ware device in the USB port. So i want to know that can we access the USB port and CD drive data from my Virtual machine (VM Ware/Vcenter/LAB Manager). If Ur Answer is yes, so tell me how i can use USB Device and CD Drive data. Please do the needful. Regards Nitin Singh Please contact me by below mail ID. Hi, Nice post! Thanks for talking about this topic. I recently installed VirtualBox on my Linux Mint 15. On that I installed Windows XP as guest. The primary reason for this was that Apple does not make iTunes for Linux. And the only way to move stuff to an iDevice is through iTunes. So I thought I’ll run iTunes on virtual Windows. Everything was going fine until I found out that I cant access my USB from the guest OS. I went to VirtualBox documentation and help and learnt that for USB to work one needs to install an extension package. I did that but even then the option for Enable USB controller checkbox in VM > Settings > USB does not show. The checkbox remains gray indicating that USB is still not supported. In the beginning of this post you mention that USB is not supported on open source GPL version of VirtualBox. So, I went to VirtualBox.org to download the closed version but they say that from version 4.0, VirtualBox is only open-source. The closed source parts of the application are now part of an extension, so it says on the website. I have already installed the extension and still cant access USB from guest. So after this info I have come to a dead end. I hope you can make sense of the issue here. Twitter: Google+: By default USB support was disabled in virtualbox, so youll probably want to enable it. Otherwise youll get an error when you go into the Settings of your virtual machine. To correct this, Step 1: Type 'getent group vboxusers' in a terminal window and copy the 'gid' 'xxx' Step 2.a: Type 'sudo gedit /etc/fstab' To Edit the fstab and give permission to the vboxusers group for USB. 2.b: Add 'none /sys/bus/usb/drivers usbfs devgid=xxx,devmode=664 0 0' to the fstab where 'xxx' is your gid. Enable USB 2.0 in the settings of your VM.
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