How to add USB devices to a VirtualBox VM

Here’s how you enable USB support for for your VM.

Just be sure that your system account is part vboxusers system group!

VBoxManage modifyvm TEST1 --usb on
VBoxManage list usbhost

You’ll get a list of connected USB devices. Take note of the vendorid and productid of the device you want to add, and modify the command below.

VBoxManage usbfilter add 1 --target TEST1 --name CC2652R --vendorid 0x8087 --productid 0x0026

Enjoy!

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