I've been poking a bit at the "Andy" Android emulator, which runs as a VirtualBox guest. Can anyone please tell me if it's possible to configure such a guest so that it appears to the host computer to be a USB device connected to the host? My under-the-hood knowledge of such things is quite limited, I'm afraid. I do know how to get the guest to take control of a USB flash drive on the host; that isn't a problem.
Thanks in advance for any help!
"Andy" and V'Box guest as USB device
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ChipMcK
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Re: "Andy" and V'Box guest as USB device
My observations are that site Genymotion has the greatest accumulated knowledge about the Android emulater.
google search on Genymotion.
google search on Genymotion.
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mpack
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Re: "Andy" and V'Box guest as USB device
I'm afraid not. VirtualBox can't simulate a USB slave.BunsenH wrote:I've been poking a bit at the "Andy" Android emulator, which runs as a VirtualBox guest. Can anyone please tell me if it's possible to configure such a guest so that it appears to the host computer to be a USB device connected to the host?
Re: "Andy" and V'Box guest as USB device
Ah, I didn't even know that there was a proper term for it: "USB slave". Thank you for that.mpack wrote:I'm afraid not. VirtualBox can't simulate a USB slave.BunsenH wrote:I've been poking a bit at the "Andy" Android emulator, which runs as a VirtualBox guest. Can anyone please tell me if it's possible to configure such a guest so that it appears to the host computer to be a USB device connected to the host?
And now that I search this forum for that term, I see that I'm not the only person to have asked about it. Would it be worth it to fire off a "what about this?" future-feature suggestion to the developers? I infer that there isn't a lot of demand for it, but I'm not the only person who'd find it useful.
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mpack
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Re: "Andy" and V'Box guest as USB device
I suspect it would be a lot of work, so if paying customers aren't asking for it then I doubt the devs would be interested. Added to which is that Android is not a supported guest either, so features that would be good for Android users don't score very high.BunsenH wrote:Would it be worth it to fire off a "what about this?" future-feature suggestion to the developers? I infer that there isn't a lot of demand for it, but I'm not the only person who'd find it useful.