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How to use USB device in windows Virtual machine

Windows virtual PC supports USB 2.0 devices. But you can use it on the virtual system by 2 ways. one is sharing device with virtual machine and other is redirecting the device to virtual machine. At the installation time of virtual machine, storage devices are automatically shared with virtual machines on a physical computer. But you need to redirect other type of USB devices such as webcam, mp3 players and PDA etc.


redirection of a device is also easy. Follow these simple steps.

Attach the device on the system.
In the virtual machine, click on USB and then attach.
Then it will install the device drivers. Now you can use the device on the virtual machine. But after the use of the device you must be release it.
TO release the device back to your host window, click on the USB and then click on release.