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! -- ---- Fred Smith -- fre...@fcshome.stoneham.ma.us ----------------------------- "For him who is able to keep you from falling and to present you before his glorious presence without fault and with great joy--to the only God our Savior be glory, majesty, power and authority, through Jesus Christ our Lord, before all ages, now and forevermore! Amen." ----------------------------- Jude 1:24,25 (niv) ----------------------------- _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos