Richard Shaw wrote:
One thing you didn't mention is if you right clicked on the USB icon in the bottom right of the virtual guest window. USB devices don't automatically get mapped to the guest unless you set it that way in the virtual guest settings. If everything is setup correctly, when you right click on the USB icon you should see your device in the list and be able to select it.
Thank you !!! That does make the flash disk visible to the guest.
I had not tried that. Recall I'm usually running the guest headless so I don't even see that menu. When I started in non-headless mode, it works. But, while this shows that the pass-through can work, it doesn't really solve my problem.
There doesn't appear to be any checkbox in the VBox settings to make this automatic. And running headless, I won't normally be able to do it. There must be some command I can run in the guest to accomplish the same thing as the USB device menu. Perhaps I can put that command in the guest's rc.local.