communicating to development board from windows7

[MClements]

I am running Ubuntu 17.1 Rebecca as host virtualboxing Windows7.

I am running an IDE called E2studio to develop code for a Renesas RX63N micro-controller.
My distribution of e2studio ide is giving me an 'unable to connect to emulator error' on my build phase. I am concerned that this is a problem with forwarding my usb port to the virtualbox.
I am running:
virtualbox version 4.3.30 r101610
Guest additions 5.0.0 (with usb 2.0 enabled)
I have enabled a usb device filter to include my SEGGER j-link device and pass it to the guest

The usb virtual machine shows the j-link device in the usb devices list and i have it checked.

Is there a simple way to test this connection to make sure the problem is not in the virtual interface?

[yman]

Hi MClements,

I'm having the same issue! After updating virtualbox to version 4.3.30, my SEGGER j-link device does not seem to communicate with Win7 PRO, virtualized under Fedora 22.

Furthermore, two similar emulators, SEGGER j-link ultra and SEGGER j-trace, even cause immediate crash of the system once connected.

This is a serious bug. I will report it in the bugtracker.

[yman]

Upgrade to VirtualBox-5.0 helped in my case.