| 1 | <?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?>
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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>
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| 8 | <ph conkeyref="vbox-conkeyref-phrases/product-name"/> supports passing through USB devices which are
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| 9 | exposed over the network using the USB over IP protocol without
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| 10 | the need to configure the client side provided by the kernel and
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| 11 | usbip tools. Furthermore, this feature works with <ph conkeyref="vbox-conkeyref-phrases/product-name"/>
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| 12 | running on any supported host, rather than just Linux alone, as is
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| 13 | the case with the official client.
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| 14 | </p>
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| 15 | <p>
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| 16 | To enable support for passing through USB/IP devices, use the
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| 17 | following command to add the device server that exports the
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| 18 | devices:
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| 19 | </p>
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| 20 | <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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| 21 | <p>
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| 22 | USB devices exported on the device server are then accessible
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| 23 | through <ph conkeyref="vbox-conkeyref-phrases/vbox-mgr"/> or <userinput>VBoxManage</userinput>, like any USB
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| 24 | devices attached locally. This can be used multiple times to
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| 25 | access different device servers.
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| 26 | </p>
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| 27 | <p>
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| 28 | To remove a device server, the following command can be used:
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| 29 | </p>
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| 30 | <pre xml:space="preserve">$ VBoxManage usbdevsource remove <varname>unique-name</varname>
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| 31 | </pre>
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| 32 | </body>
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| 33 | </topic>
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