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Fernando Antunes wrote: |
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> On Wed, Jan 20, 2010 at 2:10 AM, David Relson |
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> <relson@×××××××××××××.com <mailto:relson@×××××××××××××.com>> wrote: |
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> I've been using VirtualBox recently with 32-bit Ubuntu for a work |
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> project. It seems that whenever my thumb drive is moved between |
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> host and |
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> guest operating system, Gentoo is mounts it as a new device (see |
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> below). Can these extra device mounts be avoided? |
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> Regards, |
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> David |
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> osage relson # df -h |
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> Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on |
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> /dev/sda1 99M 17M 78M 18% /boot |
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> /dev/sda4 437G 226G 189G 55% / |
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> /dev/sdb1 466G 259G 208G 56% /mnt/usbhd |
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> /dev/sdc 7.5G 2.7G 4.8G 36% /mnt/usbkey |
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> /dev/sdd 7.5G 2.7G 4.8G 36% /mnt/usbkey |
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> /dev/sde 7.5G 2.7G 4.8G 36% /mnt/usbkey |
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> /dev/sdf 7.5G 2.7G 4.8G 36% /mnt/usbkey |
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> /dev/sdg 7.5G 2.7G 4.8G 36% /mnt/usbkey |
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> /dev/sdh 7.5G 2.7G 4.8G 36% /mnt/usbkey |
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> /dev/sdi 7.5G 2.7G 4.8G 36% /mnt/usbkey |
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> /dev/sdj 7.5G 2.7G 4.8G 36% /mnt/usbkey |
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> /dev/sdk 7.5G 2.7G 4.8G 36% /mnt/usbkey |
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> This doesn't happen with me. I'm using the binary version of |
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> virtualbox. When I plug the pen drive on Gentoo, it mount it for my |
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> host usage. When I go to the virtualbox menu usb devices and mark the |
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> checkbox for my pen drive, the pen drive is unmounted on the host and |
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> mounted on the guest (btw, Windows XP). The inverse process occurs |
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> when a uncheck the usb on the virtualbox usb devices menu. |
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> Guess, are you using the open source of virtualboxes ? I think there |
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> are difference in the usb usability betweek binary and open source |
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> version. |
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There is no official support for USB within the OSE version of |
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virtualbox. This is one of those pesky annoyances...I have heard that |
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soft links might be the trick to activate USB in the OSE version. |
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