USB devices in Hassio with Virtual Box

Installation Home Assistant OS
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I’ve been considering migrating from hassbian to hassio, but would like to deploy hassio on a home server instead of on my rpi. Using the provided vmdk file is working great with virtual box, until tonight.

I’d like to flash some Wemos D1 mini devices using the web UI of esphomelib, but can’t seem to get USB passthrough working. Virtual box sees the USB serial device on the host OS, but gives a ‘Failed to attach the usb device…’ every time I try to add it. Not a big deal for my current process, but I’d like to attach a zwave stick in the future…

Has anyone else tried to do this?

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Did you find a solution to this? I’m also having issue adding USB devices to the hassio VM on VBox

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I eventually moved away from this environment to a different virtualized one, so no.

Good luck!