I'm running FreeBSD 8.2-STABLE (host) and VirtualBox 4.2.0.

I have followed the steps in http://wiki.freebsd.org/VirtualBox
to make USB devices available to VirtualBox guests, and that works
(e.g., a Win2K guest can use a USB scanner I have attached to the
host's USB interface).

I'm planning another guest running FreeBSD (probably 9.X) and I'd
like to have a USB wifi dongle (probably a run(4) device) that is
visible to the guest as a network interface, but that is not visible
to the host.

I think this can be accomplished by preventing the run(4) driver on the
host from seizing the usb device, and then configuring VirtualBox to
let that USB device be visible to the guest.

I think I can prevent the host's usb driver from loading by
editing (or overriding?) the matching entry in /etc/devd/usb.conf
which would prevent the run(4) module from loading, but that's
kind of a big hammer.

Has anyone else solved a similar problem? Is there a finer-grained approach? 

thanks,

 ~!paul
-- 
G. Paul Ziemba
FreeBSD unix:
 1:21PM  up 22 days, 18:59, 19 users, load averages: 0.41, 0.37, 0.30
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