No usb devices are detected in virtualbox although the mounted external drive is showing and is writable in the host.But at a default VirtualBox Guest installation, the USB devices are not recognized from the Guest OS and you have to perform some extra steps needed to fix the USB functionality on. USB disk, USB printer) at the Guest machine. One of abilities of the VirtualBox is that you can use any USB connected device on the Host machine (e.g.USB device is shown in grey in guest machine when USB icon is clicked and it can be ticked to make it “On”. “Add New Hardware” in control panel does not detect the presence of a USB device. When XP starts it does not detect presence of USB device. VirtualBox shows for USB device filter = 1 (1 Active). It’s incredibly easy to install these, just run the. In order for mounted USB devices to function, the virtual machine must have Guest Additions installed. Straight away I took the disk out and replaced it with a Linux SSD, however since I don't own any other Windows systems, this will come in useful for testing my website for browser compatibility in Internet Explorer and Edge. I recently acquired a computer with an OEM/factory-imaged Windows 10 disk inside.
