The process isn’t really challenging, you just have to know what to look for. I’ll be demonstrating on VirtualBox 5.2 running on an Elementary OS host (based on Ubuntu). Why would you want or need USB working with VirtualBox? What if you want to backup data to an external drive, or transfer data between virtual machines that aren’t on the same subnet? For such instances, having the ability to easily share data via USB could make VirtualBox a significantly easier VM solution.įor those that need USB working on VirtualBox, I’m going to walk you through the process of getting this working. No matter how much we’d all like this to to be the case, with every new iteration, the developers continue to keep USB out of the long list of things that just work. Just remember when you change network on your host machine that you need to restart your virtualbox.If there’s one thing that frustrates VirtualBox users more than anything, it’s that USB doesn’t work out of the box. What you can try to do is to use your cellphone's hotspot as your network. However, you may have a router that has security features that will get in the way of seeing your local address. Now go to your host machine browser and type in The name of the file is hosts (it's not a folder name) Now on your host machine, edit the file /etc/hosts It should be accessible by any device hooked up to the same local network. That's the address of your virtual machine on your local network. There is also a line before that with inet 127.0.0.1īut you don't want that one! You want the 192 address. You will probably see a line that looks something like this: inet 192.168.43.96/24. On your virtual machine, open a command prompt and do: ip addr show Just close your Ubuntu guest, go to the Settings page in VirtualBox, select the Network category and change the Attached to listbox from NAT to Bridged Mode." "You can change your guest networking mode from NAT to Bridged.
First of all, you need to do what Answer 1 says:
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