USB in Virtualbox (Windows 7)
Posted: Sun Jan 15, 2017 6:44 pm
Hi everyone,
I just made a step up from an AS1004 to an AS5110 NAS. On the new device I'd like to use Virtualbox and Windows 7 as a guest-OS.
Problem is: I don't seem to be able to make USB devices work.
Here's what I did so far:
- Installed Virtualbox and Virtualbox Extensions on the NAS
- Created a virtual machine for Windows 7
- Installed Windows 7
- Installed the OS Addition of Virtualbox
- With the virtual machine being off I enabled the USB Controller and USB 2.0 in the VM's settings
- Upon next start of Windows 7, Windows recognized the USB ports and installed necessary drivers
And now I am stuck as I cannot make any USB-device to be recognized by the VM. I set up a blank filter, I restart the VM, I plug in a USB-device – nothing. The USB-device is recognized by the NAS, I can see it in the External Devices section of ADM but it will not show up in Windows. So what am I missing?
Any help will be highly appreciated!
Thanks in advance and best regards from Germany,
Markus
I just made a step up from an AS1004 to an AS5110 NAS. On the new device I'd like to use Virtualbox and Windows 7 as a guest-OS.
Problem is: I don't seem to be able to make USB devices work.
Here's what I did so far:
- Installed Virtualbox and Virtualbox Extensions on the NAS
- Created a virtual machine for Windows 7
- Installed Windows 7
- Installed the OS Addition of Virtualbox
- With the virtual machine being off I enabled the USB Controller and USB 2.0 in the VM's settings
- Upon next start of Windows 7, Windows recognized the USB ports and installed necessary drivers
And now I am stuck as I cannot make any USB-device to be recognized by the VM. I set up a blank filter, I restart the VM, I plug in a USB-device – nothing. The USB-device is recognized by the NAS, I can see it in the External Devices section of ADM but it will not show up in Windows. So what am I missing?
Any help will be highly appreciated!
Thanks in advance and best regards from Germany,
Markus