If the virtual machine is closed down when you plug in the USB device the normal Mac OS X system will read the USB device as usual.Ĭlick on the icon on the right that has a little green plus and you should see a listing of USB devices that are eligible for passthrough: In a nutshell, we will be setting up the specific USB devices we select on this screen to be passed through to the Windows VM whenever they are plugged in while the VM is powered on. Then plug in your USB device that you want to pass through. Nobody wants to be using USB 1.1 (slow) so click on USB 2.0:
Open up Virtualbox and make sure that the Windows VM is not running:Ĭlick on “Settings” at the top and you should see this screen:Ĭlick on “Ports” (third from the right hand side in the icon menu at the top): Running a Mac with Windows running in a Virtualbox virtual machine? Here’s how to pass through a USB device so that whenever the VM (Virtual Machine) is running and the USB device is plugged into a USB port it appears in the Windows VM and not in Mac OS X.
