USB device passthrough

[abigailkeller]

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe. Support for passing USB devices through to Linux machines enables many use cases:

• Mounting Linux disks and filesystems
• Pentesting with USB Wi-Fi adapters
• Hardware development
• etc.

Describe alternatives you've considered Many use cases are served by command linking, which allows using the macOS version of a tool from Linux: https://docs.orbstack.dev/machines/#usb-devices

[tprifti]

Another option is to access USB devices inside a Linux machine. This is very helpful for hardware development because we can connect hardware with the machine and isolate development inside Linux.

[timwa0669]

Something like usb serial on linux(like /dev/tty.usbserial.XXXXX) needs usb passthrough, which cannot being access from Linux directly. Will this feature be supported?

[timwa0669]

Something like usb serial on linux(like /dev/tty.usbserial.XXXXX) needs usb passthrough, which cannot being access from Linux directly. Will this feature be supported?

[zeetabit]

good to be able to mount /dev/bus/usb

[zeetabit]

good to be able to mount /dev/bus/usb

[rhansen-ns]

+1 for pushing this feature. Needed to work with specialized vendor hardware.

[rhansen-ns]

+1 for pushing this feature. Needed to work with specialized vendor hardware.

[bertbijnens]

+2 for pushing this feature. for connecting zigbee usb gateway

[bertbijnens]

+2 for pushing this feature. for connecting zigbee usb gateway

[hofftaylor]

+3 for pushing this feature, for our firmware team to use a serial debugger! Love the product and appreciate y'alls work! 🙏

[hofftaylor]

+3 for pushing this feature, for our firmware team to use a serial debugger! Love the product and appreciate y'alls work! 🙏

[rammiah]

waiting for this feature, can use to connect btrfs usb disk on mac

[rammiah]

waiting for this feature, can use to connect btrfs usb disk on mac

[hicksca]

Another use-case is I use a physical security key and being able to use this in VMs would be really helpful.

[hicksca]

Another use-case is I use a physical security key and being able to use this in VMs would be really helpful.

[thekoc]

Is this feature being developed?

[thekoc]

Is this feature being developed?

[RedNo7]

I don't think so - I've given up on Orbstack now; this and network_mode: host were 2 promised features that I was really excited about. Docker for Desktop seems to be beta testing network_mode: host now though.

[RedNo7]

I don't think so - I've given up on Orbstack now; this and network_mode: host were 2 promised features that I was really excited about. Docker for Desktop seems to be beta testing network_mode: host now though.

[kdrag0n]

@RedNo7 Can you elaborate? We've supported host network for a long time.

[kdrag0n]

@RedNo7 Can you elaborate? We've supported host network for a long time.

[RedNo7]

sorry, @kdrag0n - I was quick to post and didn't explain myself properly.

I was trying to run homeassistant on my Mac which needed both of those things to fully function (one for a Sonof Dongle-P Zigbee aerial and the other for mDNS for Apple HomeKit integration).

I couldn't wait any longer so stopped waiting for Orbstack (using an RPi instead) a while ago. So, whilst you have since introduced host network (congrats by the way) it doesn't help me until you have also introduced USB passthrough.

I stopped checking Orbstack's development a while ago (out of sight, out of mind) so was not aware that you had since introduced it. My apologies for implying otherwise.

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Edit: I was replying to a GitHub email that popped into my inbox this morning (I had subscribed to this thread over a year ago).

[keo]

👍 for USB passthrough (WiFi dongle, Yubikey, Nitrokey HSM, webcam, etc.)

[keo]

👍 for USB passthrough (WiFi dongle, Yubikey, Nitrokey HSM, webcam, etc.)