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Windows software for sharing locally connected USB devices to other machines, including Hyper-V guests and WSL 2.

5 mentions on Hacker News by 5 people: 2 stories, 3 comments · first 2023-04-28 · latest 2026-07-31

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  1. There is no native USB passthrough support, but you can use USB/IP to access them via network. https://github.com/dorssel/usbipd-win
    comment by watermelon0 · 2025-10-11 · in Windows Subsystem for FreeBSD
  2. …a bit into some of the topics he mentions. As an example I wanna point out WSL2 and USB support: https://github.com/dorssel/usbipd-win This is the recommended way and works as expected. It is also possible to directly mount WSL2 drives…
  3. What about USB devices support ? Is there any more integrate solution than: https://github.com/dorssel/usbipd-win/