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In the above screen shot it is appearing as “NO NAME”.Īll done! Incidentally, if you want a USB thumbdrive to work in both Windows and OS X you want it formatted into FAT32 or ExFAT rather than NTFS or Mac OS X Extended. Now, if you look in Finder in Mac OS X you won’t see the drive:Ĭlosing down the VM, though, and unplugging/reinserting the drive will make it show up as normal: …and it should be picked up as if it were plugged into a physical Windows computer:Īll done. Otherwise, you can now plug your USB device in: If you have only just selected USB 2.0 for the first time you will probably see the above screen.

Safely remove the USB device from your computer and then start the Windows virtual machine. Click OK, and go back to the main Virtualbox screen. The USB controller has been moved to USB 3.0 in the above screen shot – ignore that, as USB 3.0 currently does not work on Windows 7 VMs. Now you should see it listed under “USB Device Filters”. In this instance we are selecting the SanDisk Cruzer Blade.

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.