Hi,
when booting a Linux guest on my Windows host, I'd like to attach right away an existing USB device via the (existing) desktop shortcut. Problem is that the startvm sub-command doesn't seem to take any additional arguments, whereas I don't want to separately run the controlvm sub-command for attaching the device. Is there any easy workaround with additional parameters to the startvm sub-command and / or by including this into the VBOX-file?
Thx,
Andreas
Automatic usbattach on guest boot?
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Re: Automatic usbattach on guest boot?
If the device is Idling (see USB basics and troubleshooting, #3: Device categories) then you can create a USB filter and have the device captured at the VM startup. See: USB basics and troubleshooting, #4: USB Filters.
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Re: Automatic usbattach on guest boot?
The usb-device is already busy in Windows, thus I need to actively attach it to the guest and detach it on the host.
After all I guess the easiest way is to chain commands in the shortcut, i.e. something like "vboxmanage startvm <uuid> && vboxmanage controlvm <uuid> usbattach <deviceid>".
After all I guess the easiest way is to chain commands in the shortcut, i.e. something like "vboxmanage startvm <uuid> && vboxmanage controlvm <uuid> usbattach <deviceid>".