On Wed, Dec 09, 2009 at 04:13:04PM +0000, Lars Hecking wrote:
I tried everything in that post as well, and nothing worked for me. Finally I found the process I laid out and it worked.
The link to it is here which is an old ticket:
I've tested it and it works! Presumably, it might have worked in some of my previous attempts, but I only now figured out that I need to manually attach the device via device menu or USB icon. Not exactly plug and play, but workable.
The mount command itself is sufficient here, no need to stop vboxdrv (or vboxnet, which doesn't exist), or chmod g+rw /dev/vboxdrv.
Thanks, Max!
A late addition to this thread:
I just got an external USB drive and wanted to access it from my XP guest. I couldn't figure it out, but I did remember seeing this thread.
i did the steps in the first posting (or at least the first one I still have) and it worked. then I went to look at the virtualbox forum post whose URL is above. I see it has us commenting out the /proc/usb things in rc.sysinit. I've done that, but I assume I need to reboot to see the result (and I don't reboot unless forced to), but I also wonder what else I'm breaking by commenting out those lines. Anybody got any ideas on that?
Thanks!