Fernando Antunes wrote:
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>
> On Wed, Jan 20, 2010 at 2:10 AM, David Relson
> <rel...@osagesoftware.com <mailto:rel...@osagesoftware.com>> wrote:
>
> I've been using VirtualBox recently with 32-bit Ubuntu for a work
> project. It seems that whenever my thumb drive is moved between
> host and
> guest operating system, Gentoo is mounts it as a new device (see
> below). Can these extra device mounts be avoided?
>
> Regards,
>
> David
>
>
>
> osage relson # df -h
> Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
> /dev/sda1 99M 17M 78M 18% /boot
> /dev/sda4 437G 226G 189G 55% /
> /dev/sdb1 466G 259G 208G 56% /mnt/usbhd
> /dev/sdc 7.5G 2.7G 4.8G 36% /mnt/usbkey
> /dev/sdd 7.5G 2.7G 4.8G 36% /mnt/usbkey
> /dev/sde 7.5G 2.7G 4.8G 36% /mnt/usbkey
> /dev/sdf 7.5G 2.7G 4.8G 36% /mnt/usbkey
> /dev/sdg 7.5G 2.7G 4.8G 36% /mnt/usbkey
> /dev/sdh 7.5G 2.7G 4.8G 36% /mnt/usbkey
> /dev/sdi 7.5G 2.7G 4.8G 36% /mnt/usbkey
> /dev/sdj 7.5G 2.7G 4.8G 36% /mnt/usbkey
> /dev/sdk 7.5G 2.7G 4.8G 36% /mnt/usbkey
>
> This doesn't happen with me. I'm using the binary version of
> virtualbox. When I plug the pen drive on Gentoo, it mount it for my
> host usage. When I go to the virtualbox menu usb devices and mark the
> checkbox for my pen drive, the pen drive is unmounted on the host and
> mounted on the guest (btw, Windows XP). The inverse process occurs
> when a uncheck the usb on the virtualbox usb devices menu.
>
> Guess, are you using the open source of virtualboxes ? I think there
> are difference in the usb usability betweek binary and open source
> version.
>
There is no official support for USB within the OSE version of
virtualbox. This is one of those pesky annoyances...I have heard that
soft links might be the trick to activate USB in the OSE version.
