Install drivers in guest VM
To clear the air in another thread that has been closed. The poster said that you have to install the device driver in the host to make the guest's device work, which is not correct. If I can do it (...
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Using a different Host OS like Linux most likely will get you round the difficulties of a USB3 only port as long as you have a driver for that USB3 port.
The devices are passed to the guest as USB2 (VirtualBox).
