F16 USB pass-through to VirtualBox

[Ed Greshko]

On 02/23/2012 12:17 PM, Dave Close wrote:
> 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.

To attach a usb drive to my system I use...

VBoxManage controlvm F16-1 usbattach f6273fd2-4176-43dc-9e5b-11ce45b6b7d4

is that the kind of command you are looking for?



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