VirtualBox Windows guest on OS X host for PSoC Creator

For a personal project, I use PSoC Creator, a design environment that runs only on Microsoft Windows. As my current development machines is a MacBook, I installed VirtualBox on it, and used a spare Windows 8.1 license. It took me some time to set things up such that I was able to use the full MacBook display resolution for Windows. Here are the steps I followed:

• use VirtualBox 5.0.16
• for display settings, check Use Unscaled HiDPI Support
• this lets Windows use the native MacBook display resolution (2560 x 1600 in my case). As characters and icons are too small with this resolution, increase their size using Windows Control Panel:
• select Appearance and Personalisation / Adjust screen resolution
• select Make text and other items larger or smaller

To allow PSoC Creator to program the hardware target using the USB port:

• install VirtualBox Extension Pack
• for USB controller settings, select USB 3.0 (xHCI)
• reboot the virtual machine
• insert the hardware target, and add a filter for it, using VirtualBox USB / USB Settings... menu

Last point: my MacBook AZERTY keyboard does not map in a fully transparent way to the AZERTY keyboard seen by Windows. I have to use following translations for some keys:

Note for Linux Mint: for some other purpose, I also run Linux VMs in macOS. The same keyboard mapping problem appeared, of course. But with Linux Mint, the solution is really simple: using the Control Center, set Keyboard Model to MacBook / MacBook Pro (Intl), for French / French keyboard layout.