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I bought a usb dongle which I intend to use in Ubuntu 10.04. The problem is I haven't been able to find any Linux drivers for it which has prompted me to find another solution: Virtualbox.

I intend to run Windows XP as guest and plug in the dongle which will run inside Windows easily. The challenge for me is in making sure Ubuntu gets the connection too and I do all my web development stuff inside Linux. Windows has to be just a gateway.

Thanks

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    You may be happier getting your USB dongle to work in Ubuntu - please give us hardware details to help you on this.
    – Takkat
    May 9, 2011 at 18:29
  • thanks, but how do i find out exactly? all i can tell right now is that i'm using a Sony Vaio VGN C250N...
    – coolmac
    May 11, 2011 at 5:11
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    plug in your dongle and run "lsusb" from command line and post its output here.
    – binW
    Dec 8, 2011 at 14:55

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I believe the feature you're looking for is called usb-passthrough and is only available in the closed source version of VirtualBox.

http://www.virtualbox.org/manual/ch03.html#idp11184832

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