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Nov 13, 2018 Open up VirtualBox, right-click on the virtual machine that needs access to USB, and click Settings. In the VM settings window, click USB. You should see that USB is now available. VirtualBox is being actively developed with frequent releases and has an ever growing list of features, supported guest operating systems and platforms it runs on. VirtualBox is a community effort backed by a dedicated company: everyone is encouraged to contribute while Oracle ensures the product always meets professional quality criteria.
If you can't see your USB device in that list, it means that VirtualBox cannot access your host USB devices. Make sure your user is added to the vboxusers group and that you restarted your host. The selected device will immediately be accessible from the guest. A Windows guest may need additional drivers. This is a combination of drivers that work to increase the functionality of the VirtualBox software. Among other things, this pack will help you use USB 2.0 and 3.0 ports with your virtual machine. This means that you can use devices attached to these ports and open them on the virtual machine created. No drivers are needed on the host. Actually, VirtualBox has to load its own driver for a device to be able to 'connect it' to virtual machine. This driver works with any USB device. I am 100% positive about this. I have once used an old scanner in a Windows XP guest, even though no drivers were available for Windows 7 host or even for x64 systems.
As we walk in the year 2010, Operating systems are not machine specific anymore. Google chrome OS has launched which marks a new era in the beginning of cloud based Operating system. But sometimes the cloud can be a little difficult to maintain, especially when you prefer using a USB stick for doing your day to day tasks with the computer, taking backups, moving files and working in multiple computers like in Office, home or may be some other place.
Thus sometimes you may need an operating system that would be portable, so that you can run it from your removable drive and from any computer. We have covered Mojopack earlier, which lets you carry a “self made system environment” in your USB drive. But Mojopack is not any operating system and it depends upon the host computer where you would be using it.
What if we could install and carry an operating system of our choice from the USB drive?
What if we could install and carry an operating system of our choice from the USB drive?
The answer: Virtual box made portable. The idea here is to install Virtualbox in your USB drive and use it to install a guest operating system. With this portable virtual disk, you can use this system in any computer you want.
How to Make VirtualBox Portable
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1. To install Virtualbox in your removable drive, go to vbox and download the package (957 Kb). Choose the version 3.0 as shown below.
2. Run the set up and it will ask you for a location to unzip the files. Extract all the files to your USB drive.
Apex fonts free download. 3. The setup will extract all the files required to set up virtualbox in your USB drive. Now open the “Portable-Virtualbox” folder from the removable drive and double click the set up file as shown below.
4. Now you will be shown something like this T60 drivers xp.
5. Select the checkboxes “Extract the files for a 32 bit system” and “Extract the files for a 64 bit system“. You can also choose to compress the files to save some precious space in your removable drive.
6. That’s it. Click the “Download Installation file for Virtualbox” button.
7. Immediately after that, you will see that the application has started downloading the setup files required to install portable Virtualbox. Wait for the download to finish. You will see a notification right in the middle of the screen and also in the system tray.
8. It would take some time to download the Virtualbox files. After the download is over, you will see a prompt as shown below
9. Now open your removable drive again and you would see a new icon named as “Virtual Box” (not to be confused with Portable Virtualbox icon). Double click it and you will see the usual Virtualbox wizard.
Complete the wizard and you are done with the installation part of portable Virtualbox in the removable drive.
Install a Portable Operating System in your Removable Drive
Now that Virtualbox is in your removable drive, you can easily create a virtual hard disk and install any operating system such as Windows XP, Windows Vista, Linux etc. Start the virtual Box program and you can create a virtual hard disk. Save this hard disk in your removable drive as you would be using it from the USB drive only. Now here are some useful guides on how to install a new operating system with Virtualbox:
Once you are done with the installation part you can carry the Operating system in the removable drive and use it on multiple computers. That concludes the tutorial on installing a portable operating system in your USB stick.
Advantages
There are a lot of advantages of using a portable Virtualbox hard disk and running an operating system with it. The biggest advantage is that you can run the OS on any computer which does not have virtual box installed. Another major advantage is keeping your hard disk free from virtual hard disks or you may even copy the virtual hard disk from one computer to another.
Hope you would find this software useful. What’s your take on portable Virtualbox? Do let us know through a comment.
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I'm using Ubuntu Maverick and Virtual Box 3+. I have Windows 7 Ultimate. The problem is that it doesn't detect USB drives in Windows 7, but USB peripherals (mouse + keybord) are working.
I followed these instructions, but I can't find the user group
TheWanderervboxusers
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1. Install Extension Pack
also see: How do I install the VirtualBox version from Oracle to install an Extension Pack?
USB 1.0 is supported in the version installed from the Ubuntu repositories (from VirtualBox > 4.x).
For USB 2.0 and USB 3.0 we need to install the free (but closed source) VirtualBox Extension Pack (NOT the 'platform packages') from the VirtualBox download page. If you had installed VirtualBox from the repositories you have to make sure to choose the extension pack for the right version of VirtualBox. You can see the version of your installed VirtualBox in the
help > About VirtualBox
menu. For regular updates and bugfixes it is recommended to install the most recent VirtualBox version from the Oracle repository.All virtual machines need to be powered off before installing the extension.
2. Become a 'vboxuser'
To be able to get access to an attached USB device, the Ubuntu host user needs to be in the
vboxusers
group. Add your user to this group by running the following commandand reboot or logout/login.
3. Activate USB support in VirtualBox Manager
Shut down your virtual machine and open USB settings in the VirtualBox Manager. Tick
Enable USB Controller
and USB 2.0 (EHCI) Controller
or USB 3.0 (xHCI) Controller
.If these settings are greyed out, you need to shut down the virtual machine.
4. Select host USB device for access from the guest
To grant access to USB devices we need to select a device to disable in the host and to enable in the guest (this is a precaution to avoid simultaneous access from host and guest). Shrek play games online. This can be done from the panel Devices menu or by right mouse click in the bottom panel of the VirtualBox Manager on the USB icon:
Tick the device you need in the guest, untick it if you need it in the host. If you can't see your USB device in that list, it means that VirtualBox cannot access your host USB devices. Make sure your user is added to the
vboxusers
group and that you restarted your host.The selected device will immediately be accessible from the guest. A Windows guest may need additional drivers.
- Windows 7 needs an additional driver for USB 3.0 support.
- Windows 10 does not accept an NTFS formatted USB pen drive.
[optional] Use USB filters for permanent access in the guest
By defining USB filters we can define USB devices that will automatically be presented to the guest when booting the guest OS.
Click on the green + symbol on the right to add a known device.
Note, that some devices may lead to a boot failure of the guest. We can not use these devices for filters.
Read more on USB support in the VirtualBox User Manual.
Also see: what are the proper values for usb device in virtual box
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- Install
gnome-system-tools
b/c The old Users and Groups GUI is not available by default on 11.10 - After the installation finished Open user and groups from launcher
- Select your username click on Manage Groups and select vboxusers and click add.
- logout/login to be able to use USB in VirtualBox.
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The
vboxusers
will be in the /etc/group
file. You edit it with something like nano
. sudo nano /etc/group
Overlord season 3 dubbed. Add your user to the
vboxusers
line, or create one if necessary.As Takkat has pointed out, to get full USB device support, you'll need to install the full version of Virtualbox (not the OSE).
The ppa I have for the 'official' virtualbox is here:
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I had the same problem. After trying all the other solutions I realised my problem.
I had downloaded virtualbox from the Ubuntu Software Center, which didn't have the latest version of virtualbox, so I had accidently downloaded the wrong version of 'Oracle VM VirtualBox Extension Pack'.
Solution:
- open virtualbox, click help, click about, find your virtualbox version number.
- Goto https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Download_Old_Builds_4_3 (replace '4_3' with your version).
- Download the 'Extension Pack' that matches your virtualbox version.
- Install that, and it might ask you if you would like to downgrade, click yes.
Worked for me anyway.
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In Ubuntu 16.04 LTS, after the initial install with
I also had to:
Then I could enable USB 2/3 support in the machine settings.
What the
virtualbox-ext-pack
actually does, is download the required files from http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox and prompt you to accept the license before installing.mivkmivk
I had the same problem and fixed it by clicking in the VirtualBox group of my user. You can access it installing gnome-system-tools (it does not come with Ubuntu 12.04 Precise Pangolin), either via the Ubuntu Software Center, Synaptic or by typing in the terminal:
Remember that to paste in the terminal you have to use Ctrl+Shift+V, as opposed to Ctrl+V.
You will probably have to enter your password to allow the installation and add a Y (as in yes) to finish installing the packages.
Then you head to your Dash home and type users. You will see two applications. The good one is Users and Groups.
You then have to click on Advanced settings for your user and enter your password.
Now you will be shown a window with three tabs. Click on User Privileges. Find the line that says Use Virtualbox virtualization solution and then OK.
You may be asked to enter your password again. Then click on Close and log-out and log-in again.
When you start VirtualBox, you should see a whole bunch of new USB devices.
Good luck!
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If you can list your USB devices being root, but not as a regular user (despite being in the group vboxusers), it may be related to a reached limit of monitored files.
You need to increase the maximum number of files your programs are allowed to monitor (inotify). If you have a client that synchronizes your files (dropbox, seafile, etc.), the limit can be reached and the USB devices cannot be listed. It is reported as a bug issue here.
Edit /etc/sysctl.conf and increase the limit to 524288. it can be done as mentioned here, like this:
The USB devices should appear doing (as a user or root):
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My solution was the following:
- Power off virtual machine
- Download the right extension pack
- Install extension pack
- Start virtual machine, put in Virtualbox guest additions and install them. If already installed, repeat the installation
- Shut down virtual machine
- Go to Settings>USB as shown in the images above and enable USB
- Boot virtual machine
If not working, restart your whole host system and try again. Worked fine for me.Watch out: At the first boot of the guest system after installing the guest additions, you will see all usb devices to choose, but it can take up to 10 minutes until the Windows guest activates them after you checked them. Just wait patiently.
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For me on Kubuntu 16.04 (with virtualbox 5.0.24-dfsg-0ubuntu1.16.04.1 installed via
apt
) I had used VirtualBox before with USB passthrough working. However, I was no longer part of the virtualbox group (checked with cat /etc/group | grep vboxusers
) and so used kdesudo kuser
to add myself (can be done with sudo usermod -a -G virtualbox $USER
too). I then needed to logout and back in again to use the new group listings and authorise my access.
Now when doing
VboxManage list usbhost
it returns the usb devices instead of just 'none'; also in the settings on VirtualBox I can choose connected USB devices to passthrough to the virtual OS. Yay!pbhjpbhj
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