USB Redirect - VirtualBox

USB Redirect?

Simplified answer, redirecting a USB device from directly communicating with your host system to directly communicating with that of your VM or guest system.

VirtualBox Configuration:

Unlike QEMU/KVM, Oracle VirtualBox can be somewhat "temperamental" initially with USB redirection. However that being said as long as you can follow the initial setup/installation steps of VirtualBox and the extension pack then there should be no issues.

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Step 1.

• Download and install Oracle VirtualBox from either their website: https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Downloads

• Or if you are using Linux then you may want to check the repository / package manager of your distribution.

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Step 2.

• Download and install the extension pack for Oracle VirtualBox from their website: https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Downloads

Extension pack may or may not be available in your distributions respository

• Once downloaded the extension pack by default and file type will be opened by VirtualBox and prompting you if you wish to install and apply the extension pack. Obviously you do, allow VirtualBox to install the package itself. Once done VirtualBox will restart itself with the extension pack installed.

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Step 3.

• Depending on your distribution your user may not be automatically added to the "vboxusers" group. So, exit out of VirtualBox completely and open your terminal of choice and enter the following:

( SUDO ADDUSER $USER VBOXUSERS ) - Debian based distributions*

• Now press enter and of course enter your password. Now you will be added to the "vboxusers" group, or at least the user you are logged in as. After doing this exit out of your terminal and session logout is required for changes to take effect. Please logout, and log back into your system - VirtualBox now should be patched and ready for USB2.0/3.0 redirection.

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