On Wed, 2009-12-30 at 20:32 -0500, fred smith wrote: > 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? --- Um, IF it still want work after one of those methods do rpm -q gparted and if your using it you will have to remove it or rename the gparted UDEV entry. gparted prevent automounting USB Devices. John