Help with VirtualBox??????

[Steven Stern]

On 09/27/2010 10:39 AM, DB wrote:
> Hi All,
> 
> Just loaded VirtualBox on my antique system - very pleasantly surprised 
> how easily eveything (almost!) seems to have gone.... must be a problem 
> waiting to bite me!
> 
> Anyway, reason for going down this path is to be able to use Photbook 
> software which runs on everything - so long as it's called Winderz! 
> Having got it running, I now need to be able to move photos from my 
> Fedora 12 external USB harddrive & there comes Problemo Uno - my virtual 
> machine can't see any USB ports.  During installation it kept bubling on 
> aabout how I'd got USBFS set up & should change it, but no idea how.
> 
> So, question to you smart folks out there.... HOW do I change the USB 
> file system to something it might like?  Or is there a different way to 
> share data between the Fedora host & the XP guest machines?????
> 
> As ever, many thanks fr all the time you spend helping me out of my "Tar 
> Baby" situation(s)!
> 
> Greetings
> 
> Dave

The version of VirtualBox from the fedora repos does not include USB
access.

1) Uninstall VirtualBox-OSE.
2) Then copy the repo from here
http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/rpm/fedora/virtualbox.repo
to yum.repos.d
3) yum install VirtualBox-3.2

(see http://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Linux_Downloads)







-- 
-- Steve