Jul 18, 2015 · After adding the USB filter, click OK to confirm. From now on, if you insert the filtered USB device, it will be automatically passed to the VBox guest OS and won't show up on the host OS. VirtualBox USB Transfer Speeds. The inclusion of USB 3.0 support in VirtualBox 5.0 is a great improvement.
Examples of bad devices to create filters for: USB input devices (mouses or keyboards) that you would like to use with the host and guest OSes. Virtualbox will allow the guest OS access to these devices by default so there is no need for the guest OS to directly control them (well, I could think of some specialized reasons but I will digress ...
Attach to your PC the USB devices you want to be automatically mounted in the VM (virtual machine). Open Virtualbox; Select your VM and go to "Machine" -> "Settings" -> "USB". Check "Enable USB Controller"; click on the icon with the USB plug and the plus, and click on the devices you want to be automatically mounted in the VM. Click "Ok".
Oct 18, 2010 · Install Virtualbox. The first thing you need to do is install Virtualbox from Oracle’s website. It is different than Virtualbox OSE which is included in the Ubuntu repositories because the Virtualbox from Oracle includes proprietary software which allows you to mount USB devices inside you VM among other things.
This enables support for USB 2.0 and USB 3.0 devices, VirtualBox RDP and PXE boot for Intel cards. In the Ports window pane, I do not see where you have added a USB Device Filter. Below is where I added a 2 GB USB flash drive. An alternative to ejecting the USB external drive would be the following: