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Being a newbie to virtual machine I am wondering why does VirtualBox have such a problem with such thing as USB external drives, USB mice, etc.? USB has been out there for a while now so I would assume that the software to access them should be common place in teh Virtual Box program. So why is it not? Anyone got a good answer.

A good answer is going to be diffecult without knowing what kind of problems the devs have and without a good understanding how things are transported/connected. I'd prefer to see a generic bi-directional device but thats another discussion However as I see it it more or less has to do with how the Host is dealing with such a device, sharing usb at the hardware level is not something a Host can deal with easely, thus creating a problem when needing to reroute it. ie. Mostly when a usb device doesn't have a Host driver it creates less problems in a Guest. Maybe the Host/Guest driver thing needs to be redesigned, hopefully a dev can shed more light.