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Hi all,

does someone know of a remote client like mstsc.exe for Windows, but which also supports the remote USB feature of Virtualbox?

Thanks!

VBox doesnt have a usb remote feature, thats a rdp feature linked to a supported Guest OS.

vbox4me2 wrote:VBox doesnt have a usb remote feature, thats a rdp feature linked to a supported Guest OS.

Well, anyway: I have a view Windows PCs (Vista, XP, 7 -all 32bit) which currently use mstsc.exe to remotely run an Windows XP 32bit client, stuffed into a VM which itself is running on a Win7 64bit server hosting the VM.
Now all I want is to plug USB sticks to my Windows PCs and make mstsc.exe (or whatever RDP-program can achieve this) make the VM believe that the USB-sticks had been plugged to the VM client directly.
Best to my knowledge, mstsc.exe can't do that, so I'm hoping that someone can hint me into the right direction?

For what its worth, the newest version 3.1.0 PUEL
7.1.4. Remote USB VBox users Guide
http://www.rdesktop.org/

You need rdesktop-vrdp.exe (for Windows), which VirtualBox does not yet provide.

rdesktop is the same as mstsc.exe, but for Linux.
rdesktop source is here: http://www.rdesktop.org/ (the link PerryG gave).
rdesktop Linux binaries are part of most Linux distributions.
A Windows port of older versions (includes modified source) are here: http://www.atomice.com/blog/?page_id=9.

rdesktop-vrdp is a VirtualBox modification of rdesktop to add the VirtualBox remote USB feature.
rdesktop-vrdp source is here: http://www.virtualbox.org/browser/trunk ... RDP/client (and also via the other source code options here: http://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Downloads).
rdesktop-vrdp Linux binaries are part of the Linux Guest Additions ISOs.

Where is the Windows port of rdesktop-vrdp? The manual says: 'RDP clients for other platforms will be provided in future VirtualBox versions.'

To build a Windows version, somebody could figure out the required changes (perhaps by examining the differences between the base rdesktop source code and the Windows port of rdesktop) and compile it.
Hopefully that someone would be Sun, and they would include it in the Windows Guest Additions ISO.

What is on the USB sticks? Just a flash drive with some files?

mstsc.exe doesn't do remote USB, but it does do remote drives/shares and 'Plug and Play' devices.
You would HAVE TO connect to an RDP server inside the guest OS, and NOT connect to VirtualBox's vrdp server.
Right-click>Edit the *.rdp file, select the 'Local Resources' tab, click the 'Local devices and resources'>More... button, and enable the 'Drives' and/or 'Supported Plug and Play Devices' checkbox trees.

bitbuerster wrote:make the VM believe that the USB-sticks had been plugged to the VM client directly.
Best to my knowledge, mstsc.exe can't do that, so I'm hoping that someone can hint me into the right direction?

mstsc can do this, but its very restricted on what it supports locally. (which is just a tad bit more then nothing)