USB Host debugging with Android emulator

Question

I need to test my custom USB peripheral but I'm lacking the right phone that support USB Host, will the Android emulator be enough for me to test my USB peripheral hardware for this matter?

UPDATE:

I realized that Android-x86 (with VirtualBox or Vmware player) can be used for this purpose, however not still sure to what extent.

Answer 1

The emulator does not support USB connections from my experience.

Check this out for more info.

Edit: From my research one of the cheapest, quality Android tablets that has full USB Host mode support was the Samsung Galaxy 2 (7.0"). Now the Nexus 7 does have some host mode support but it cannot support memory devices, such as flash drives. I beleive this is due to software limitations set by Google/Asus, since they also did not provide a microSD on the Nexus 7.