Re: [gentoo-user] VirtualBox, Gentoo, and USB thumb drives
On Wed, Jan 20, 2010 at 2:10 AM, David Relson rel...@osagesoftware.comwrote: 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 FilesystemSize 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.
Re: [gentoo-user] VirtualBox, Gentoo, and USB thumb drives
Am Mittwoch, 20. Januar 2010 schrieb Fernando Antunes: Guess, are you using the open source of virtualboxes ? I think there are difference in the usb usability betweek binary and open source version. In that the OSS version does not support USB at all. -- Gruß | Greetings | Qapla' Do not handicap your children by making their lives easy. (R. Heinlein) signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.
Re: [gentoo-user] VirtualBox, Gentoo, and USB thumb drives
Fernando Antunes wrote: 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 FilesystemSize 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.
Re: [gentoo-user] VirtualBox, Gentoo, and USB thumb drives
On Tue, Jan 19, 2010 at 8:10 PM, David Relson 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 1) Label the partition and then possibly put mount instructions in fstab? 2) Are you properly unmounting the thumb drive each time you remove it? Seems like maybe the system thinks you're not... HTH, Mark
