Jim Wight wrote:

> At the moment I can't see what use filters are. Can anyone provide an
> example of how they might be used?

Indeed, USB filters are half-way done at the moment. AFAIR, the only 
useful feature they provide is to distribute USB devices between VMs. In 
other words, you can specify which VM the particular USB device should 
be automatically given to when it is attached to the host computer or 
when a VM is started and the device is already there.

You can also set up a global filter (using VBoxManage) that will hide 
matching devices from VMs, but it only applies to devices attached 
during VM runtime -- global filters are skipped when processing already 
attached devices. This makes them useless for your case (hiding 
permanently attached devices).

Anyway, the new USB filter design is planned and it will definitely take 
the above issues into account.

-- 
Regards,
Dmitry A. Kuminov


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