

USB Network Gate USB passthrough capabilities mean that all the convenience and efficiency of controlling USB devices that are physically connected to a remote computer with network/Internet access is right there in your hands, readily available through an elegant and straightforward GUI. Thanks to the redirection technology that works perfectly via LAN, internet, or Ethernet connection, any USB Network Gate user, be it any designer, software engineer, or game dev, obtains full control over the host machine’s printer, webcam, dongle, or other USB-based hardware. With this handy professional-grade app, USB redirection becomes an easy task because USB Network Gate solves many of the connectivity issues that users face when trying to access their USB devices from vBox VMs.

Our articles usually show you how to do things on a Raspberry Pi.The easiest and most convenient way to establish VirtualBox USB Mac passthrough on a guest machine running a Mac OS (or other operating systems, for that matter) is using the software solution named USB Network Gate. This time, we’re changing things up: we’re going to show you how to use a PC or Mac to run the Raspberry Pi Foundation’s desktop operating system, Debian with Raspberry Pi Desktop (for brevity’s sake, we’ll call it just “Raspberry Pi Desktop” from now on).


This Raspbian-like OS (as the names imply, both operating systems are based on Debian) allows you to use your PC or Mac as a kind of substitute for your Raspberry Pi. That makes it useful for testing out projects when your Pi isn’t handy. It’s also fun because it backs the familiar Raspbian interface with your PC or Mac’s hardware, which is much more powerful than the little Pi. The simplest way to get Raspberry Pi Desktop up and running is to install the operating system, but that will require you to dedicate a computer to the project (or at least to partition a hard drive). If you want to keep running Windows or macOS on your computer, your best bet is to run Raspberry Pi Desktop on a virtual machine – which is exactly what we’ll show you how to do in this guide.
