How to get Digispark to work in a VM (Virtualbox)?

[Holes Flow]

First post...

I have a windows 7 Ultimate guest as a VM inside a Windows 7 Ultimate host.  I am doing videos to show how to get Digispark running with Arduino IDE from start to finish. But there is a problem:

Because the USB port is transient, I cannot set it in advance in VB. When I do see it ion the VM ("MCS Digistump Digispark") in the USB devices list on the guest (not on the host, for a weird reason), attaching to it crashes all USB hubs on the host, requiring a hard reset/power down on the host.

Above is on the guest/VM

Has anyone been able to do this?

TIA!

pat

[PeterF]

I suspect it is crashing because by the time you click on it... it has disconnected, or disconnects whilst Virtualbox is trying to capture it.

When your virtual machine is shut down, try going into the settings for it, and under USB there, see if you an add it. You can either try to snag it via the + icon, if you can catch it in time.. , or you can add a manual filter. Try these as the Vendor and Product ID - "VID_16D0&PID_0753" (from the Digispark_Bootloader.inf drivers file) and see if you have any luck