[CentOS] VirtualBox and CentOS

fred smith fredex at fcshome.stoneham.ma.us
Thu Dec 31 01:32:06 UTC 2009


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:
> > 
> > <http://www.virtualbox.org/ticket/705>
>  
>  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!


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