Map microcontrollers connected (FTDI) on physical USB port to Windows Virtual Machine in Virtualbox as COM

Question

Host OS: Ubuntu 18.04

Virturalized: Windows 10

Things I have already done:

Added $USER to the dialout group and rebooted
sudo chmod 666 /dev/ttyUSB*
Mapped the port where my microcontroller gets detected as a Serial communication device to a COM4 port from the settings for the VM

Result:

The Device Manager of the VM shows only COM1 and hence no success at serial communication.

Does this answer your question? How to make Windows 7 based Virtual machine running on Ubuntu 14.04 host machine detect a USB device? — N0rbert, Jan 19 '20 at 16:22
Yes it did work! Thanks a lot... :) Also, the question is regarding detection of the USB device and not an FTDI one. I even got an error stating that the device won't work as expected but it worked! — thewebjackal, Jan 21 '20 at 15:31

score 2 · Accepted Answer · answered Jan 21 '20 at 15:47

N0rbert's comment did guide in the right direction. I am leaving the answer here with the screenshots as a documentation so that others won't scratch their heads trying to do the setup using Serial port Settings of Virtualbox.

So, the steps are as follows:

Connect your microcontroller via USB.
Open the USB section in the Settings for your VM.
Add the intended device as per the screenshot (by clicking on 2nd icon in the right pane).

Power ON the VM and you will get this error which can be ignored.

Under Device Manager on your VM you will find your device

Map microcontrollers connected (FTDI) on physical USB port to Windows Virtual Machine in Virtualbox as COM

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