VirtualHere in combination with Oracle VirtualBox

I have VirtualHere server on a Raspberry Pi 2 and connected a SDR-RTL dongle to be used as a remote radio
I can see this setup from a VirtualHere client on Windows10 as being active
I can see the usb device in the list of connected usb devices from my Oracle VirtualBox Ubuntu machine installed on the same Windows10 pc

But I can not connect to the usb device from the VirtualBox Ubuntu OS

Is it possible to access usb devices from within a VirtualBox?

Kind regards,
Erwin

#2

You need to run the virtualhere client inside the virtualbox vm

Dont run the virtualhere client on the host because a USB device should not be passed through twice, (i.e once by virtualhere to the host and again by virtualbox to the guest)

#3

That is an interesting suggestion.

Having the client under Win10 and opening a VirtualBox and then accessing a usb disk drive works.
So I doubt this is the issue.
A usb disk drive can be accessed via a double pass through. Should be when the virtualhere solution is transparant as it is all handled by the Oracle Virtual Box software.

Furthermore the 2 versions of the Linux client do not work in my Ubuntu machine. So I will need to study this setup a little better.

#4

It helps a lot to start the server first before trying to access it with the client .......

With the client running in the virtualBox I can now access both the usb disk or the RTL-SDR dongle.

Thank you Michael

#5

OK cool :) I wouldn't think two pass through's would work, but i guess it does!