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| 2 | <!DOCTYPE topic PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DITA Topic//EN" "topic.dtd">
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| 3 | <topic xml:lang="en-us" id="usbip">
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| 4 | <title>Accessing USB devices Exposed Over the Network with USB/IP</title>
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| 5 |
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| 6 | <body>
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| 7 | <p><ph conkeyref="vbox-conkeyref-phrases/product-name"/> supports passing through USB devices which are exposed over
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| 8 | the network using the USB over IP protocol without the need to configure the client side provided by the kernel
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| 9 | and usbip tools. Furthermore, this feature works with <ph conkeyref="vbox-conkeyref-phrases/product-name"/>
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| 10 | running on any supported host, rather than just Linux alone, as is the case with the official client. </p>
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| 11 | <p>To enable support for passing through USB/IP devices, use the following command to add the device server that
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| 12 | exports the devices: </p>
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| 13 | <pre xml:space="preserve">VBoxManage usbdevsource add <varname>unique-name</varname> --backend <varname>USBIP</varname> --address <varname>device-server</varname>[:<varname>port</varname>]</pre>
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| 14 | <p>USB devices exported on the device server are then accessible through <ph
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| 15 | conkeyref="vbox-conkeyref-phrases/vbox-mgr"/> or <userinput>VBoxManage</userinput>, like any USB devices
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| 16 | attached locally. This can be used multiple times to access different device servers. </p>
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| 17 | <p>
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| 18 | To remove a device server, the following command can be used:
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| 19 | </p>
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| 20 | <pre xml:space="preserve">$ VBoxManage usbdevsource remove <varname>unique-name</varname> </pre>
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| 21 | </body>
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| 22 | </topic>
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