My setup is:

• Windows 7 64bit host
• Windows XP x86 guest
• Oracle VM VirtualBox 4.0.4

And here are the steps needed to set up USB device forwarding:

1. Make sure that the guest virtual machine is turned off.
2. Download Oracle VM VirtualBox Extension Pack if you don’t have it already installed. Install it by simply double clicking on the file.
3. Restart VirtualBox application just in case.
4. Select the virtual machine, click Settings button, open USB page and select “Enable USB Controller” together with “Enable USB 2.0 (EHCI) Controller”.

   

5. Add USB device by clicking the button highlighted below.
   
6. Once the device is added, select it and click on the edit button (one button below the add button). Make sure that Remote is set to Yes.
   
7. Start guest virtual machine
8. When it has started, go to Devices -> USB Devices and select the device you want to be available for the VM
   

Your device should now be available to the guest virtual machine.

Let me quickly introduce myself. I am Arvydas – a software developer and electronics hobbyist based in Hertfordshire, UK. I was born in Lithuania and just a few years ago moved to work in UK. I have been into software development for more than 15 years and have significant experience in PHP, Ruby on Rails, C# (Mono/Microsoft.NET) and Delphi. I am a huge fan of Open Source initiative and love Linux even though my primary desktop is Windows due to the majority of my day-to-day work involved in the latter OS. Quite recently I got a chance to work with Arduino open source hardware and was very impressed by the openness and easy of use of the platform.

I am not new to blogging and have been writing arvydas.net in Lithuanian, but decided to finally spread my thoughts to a wider audience in English. :) So what can you expect to find here? Just on top of my head in no particular order the topics might be:

• Software development in general;
• Arduino and other electronics projects;
• Development with Ruby on Rails and C# languages;
• Life in UK;
• Whatever interesting is on my mind at the moment.

Thanks for visiting and I hope you will find something useful here. :)