Take a look at this. You have to port the usb device from the host machine to the virtual machine. http://www.dedoimedo.com/computers/virtualbox-usb.html Note there are two devices both need to be ported. A usb Input device mine is called Evolv DNA 200 once windows installed the drivers from windows update it changed to USB Input Device and a usb to serial port mine is called Evolv DNA 200 Serial Port