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
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)
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