Imagine that you are using a webcam on a Windows-based host machine (you have all official Windows drivers for the webcam). The advantage is that you can use a webcam which is not supported by the guest operating system of your VM. With this feature you can connect your host webcam to a guest machine. If you open VM settings ( Machine > Settings > USB) and try to enable USB 3.0 support without having VirtualBox Extension Pack installed, you will get the error message – Invalid settings detected. As a result, you can use a physical USB device in a guest operating system (OS).

USB devices such as network adapters, flash drives, hard disks, web cams etc., that are inserted into physical USB ports of a host machine can be attached to a virtual machine running on VirtualBox. The Extension pack adds the following functionality: VirtualBox Extension Pack is a binary package intended to extend the functionality of VirtualBox.

How to install VirtualBox extension pack with VBoxManage.

How to install VirtualBox Extension Pack on mac.

How to install VirtualBox Extension Pack on Windows.

Today’s blog post explains you how to install VirtualBox Extension Pack on Windows and macOS, and contains the following sections: If you have not installed VirtualBox Extension Pack yet, it is time to install it in order to unlock advanced VirtualBox features. After updating VirtualBox, it is recommended to update VirtualBox Extension Pack on a host machine and VirtualBox Guest Additions on guest machines (VMs). The previous blog post of our VirtualBox series covered VirtualBox update.

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