From 7be400253faeb9224b60cd7de06a6cbb4b50d8be Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Sevan Janiyan Date: Tue, 1 Aug 2017 11:09:01 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] The handbook currently states that USB passthrough is not possible without an extension pack. This is incorrect, virtualbox-ose is merely limited to emulating a USB1.1 host controller. PR: 220350 Submitted by: Johannes Jost Meixner Approved by: bcr (mentor) Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D11685 --- .../books/handbook/virtualization/chapter.xml | 25 +++++++++++++++---- 1 file changed, 20 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) diff --git a/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/virtualization/chapter.xml b/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/virtualization/chapter.xml index 5917e21429..9ae92b7857 100644 --- a/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/virtualization/chapter.xml +++ b/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/virtualization/chapter.xml @@ -920,11 +920,26 @@ perm vboxnetctl 0660 &virtualbox; USB Support - The &virtualbox; extension - pack is not available for &os; hosts. Without the extension - pack, the &os; host cannot pass USB - ports through to guest operating systems. - + &virtualbox; can be configured + to pass USB devices through to the guest + operating system. The host controller of the OSE version is + limited to emulating USB 1.1 devices until + the extension pack supporting USB 2.0 and 3.0 + devices becomes available on &os;. + + For &virtualbox; to be + aware of USB devices attached to the + machine, the user needs to be a member of the operator group. + + &prompt.root; pw groupmod operator -m + yourusername + + Restart the login session and + &virtualbox; for these changes to take + effect, and create USB filters as + necessary. + &virtualbox; Host