¿Puedes conectar USB a una máquina virtual?

Can you connect USB to virtual machine?

You can use up to two USB devices in your virtual machine if both your host operating system and your guest operating system support USB. If your host computer supports USB 2.0 devices, you can use those devices in the virtual machine.

Enable USB Ports via Device Manager

1. Click the Start button and type “device manager” or “devmgmt.
2. Click “Universal Serial Bus controllers” to see a list of USB ports on the computer.
3. Right-click each USB port, then click “Enable.” If this does not re-enable the USB ports, right-click each again and select “Uninstall.”

Be sure you have VirtualBox installed on your system before beginning this process. First, connect the USB drive containing the operating system you want to boot to your computer. Press Windows Key + R, type diskmgmt.msc into the Run dialog, and press Enter to open the Disk Management window.

This wikiHow teaches you how to boot from a USB flash drive rather than your computer’s hard drive on a Windows 7 computer. Booting from a USB allows you to do anything from run a light operating system to use command line services such as Clonezilla. You can even use a USB drive to install Windows 7 if needed.

So, in order to boot Virtual Machine from specified device, such as USB flash drive, you have to add the removal device, USB flash drive as hard disk on specified virtual machine. How to boot a VM virtual machine from external drive, such as USB or CD (ISO image)?

If you have a bootable USB pen drive, then you are good to go to install a new operating system on your PC as a bootable USB works just as fine as an actual bootable CD or DVD. All you have to do is plug in your USB drive to your PC and then instruct your PC so that it boots up from the USB drive and not from the hard drive which it usually does.