I wrote a quick guide on how to pass through USB devices to a VirtualBox VM.
https://sites.google.com/view/lpsantil/home/adding-usb-device-to-a-virtualbox-vm It's quite simple to add a USB device to a VirtualBox 6.1 VM. Elsewhere you find this called "passing in a device", "device passthru", "device passthrough" or something similar. You'll find similar references & guides for Video Cards, GPUs, Hard drives and Network Cards/NICs. 1. With the USB device plugged in, edit the "Settings" of the VM 2. Choose the "Ports" tab icon 3. Choose the "USB" sub-tab 4. Choose "Enable USB Controller" to enable an emulated USB controller in your VM. 5. Pick an appropriate USB spec controller. Very old devices will likely use "USB 1.1 (OHCI) Controller" (super old web cams, scanners, keyboards, mice, etc.). Devices and OSes made in the last 15 years will likely be better suited for "USB 2.0 (OHCI + EHCI) Controller". You'll also likely get better performance. If you're emulating Windows 8.x, 10, 11, or recent Linux, you could get the best device performance from "USB 3.0 (xHCI) Controller". 6. Next click the small USB device icon with a green plus to select your device. 7. Save and close your VM's "Settings". On Fri, Mar 4, 2022 at 6:43 AM Sean Warner <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello, > > Before I loose hours trying to get this to work this weekend. Would anyone > know about getting freedos to recognize USB security dongles? > > I use a HASP USB security dongle > <https://blog.eight02.com/2011/04/aladdin-hasp-security-dongles-usb-over.html> > to > activate an old software program. I want to run that program from FreeDOS > running in a Virtualbox VM. > > Lets say I connect the USB dongle to my Win 10 host that is running the > VM. Will the FreeDOS OS (or the OS could maybe be Win 7 instead) running in > the VM be able to see that HASP USB security dongle and the program running > in that VM get activated for use? > > From my reading it can be done in Virtualbox but not sure if freedos will > recognize the usb drivers or would I need to install them in the guest as > well as the host which will be Win 10. > > Cheers, > > Sean > > On Fri 4 Mar 2022, 11:54 tom ehlert, <[email protected]> wrote: > >> >> >> >> I was referring to the recommendation of using a "folder" as a drive >> under >> >> DOSEMU. I don't believe that solution supports multiple node access >> to the >> >> same folder. >> >> >> >> SMB (i.e. MSCLIENT and Samba) were designed for this use case. >> >> > What makes you think so? >> >> Just because it's true? in MSDOS at least. >> However I have no idea if that is even implemented in FreeDOS, or >> DOSEMU. >> >> > Concurrent access to files is something already handled by SHARE >> SHARE is all about access to *local* files, on the FreeDOS machine, and >> has absolutely nothing to do with sharing remote files. >> >> >> Tom >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Freedos-user mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user >> > _______________________________________________ > Freedos-user mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user >
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