Hi again On Wed, Nov 5, 2014 at 7:24 PM, Micha Silver <[email protected]> wrote:
> > Hi Madi > I use this option to mount UBS drives in virtualbox VMs all the time. > After installing the guest additions, it seems to work fine. > I just now double checked in a OSGeo Live 8.0 VM. The "Guest Additions CD" > was mounted as expected (Windows host) and after installing, a USB disk is > recognized with no trouble. > > Did you mention that your host machine is Fedora? I noticed this blog: > > http://www.if-not-true-then-false.com/2010/install-virtualbox-guest-additions-on-fedora-centos-red-hat-rhel/ > > > Thank you for the answers, I solved and in case could be of use to someone else, the solution was that apparently the VirtualBox and VirtualBox-guest packages were conflicting on my machine. I solved downloading the VirtualBox and the VirtualBox Extension Pack directly from the Oracle web site and now shared folders work like a charm. Thanks and best regards, madi -- Best regards, Dr. Margherita DI LEO Scientific / technical project officer European Commission - DG JRC Institute for Environment and Sustainability (IES) Via Fermi, 2749 I-21027 Ispra (VA) - Italy - TP 261 Tel. +39 0332 78 3600 [email protected] Disclaimer: The views expressed are purely those of the writer and may not in any circumstance be regarded as stating an official position of the European Commission.
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