[SOLVED] Support of USB 3

[Doline]

Hi,

My laptop only has USB port 3. I need to run a Windows VM and use the USB ports.
How can I do?
USB support 3-is there finally?

In advance thank you

[mpack]

AFAIK, USB 3 is not supported on Linux hosts.

What is the device? In many cases the issue can be sidestepped, e.g. shared folders can be placed on USB storage devices.

[Doline]

Hi,

This is not to use storage, but to connect to a PLC.

[mpack]

I'm pretty sure the following doesn't work on Linux hosts, but it may be worth a try in case I'm wrong:

Connect the device via a USB2 hub. It will then appear to be a USB 2 device. In Windows VBox definitely supports USB2 devices in USB3 ports, though as I said I don't think the same is true of Linux.

[Doline]

Maybe I'm wrong but if I connect a USB2 hub to a USB 3 port it will not recognize any way VBox. No?

My device is USB 2 (maybe even USB 1). But all ports are USB 3

[mpack]

As I said, on Windows VirtualBox definitely supports USB2 devices in USB3 ports. I'm not a Linux host user so I can't comment on what works there.

Is this a red herring? Have you gone through the normal stuff to get USB support working on a Linux host? E.g. joining yourself to the vboxusers group as discussed in section 3.10 of the user manual?

[Doline]

I'm really confused ... I do not remember being forced to add me to vboxuser group.
But this has solved my problem.

Thank you.