Date: Mon, 4 Jul 2016 23:35:25 +0000 From: Manish Jain <bourne.identity@hotmail.com> To: "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: How to make smooth USB access available to Virtualbox vm Message-ID: <VI1PR02MB0974C9E557F7FEBCA7D7B4FCF6380@VI1PR02MB0974.eurprd02.prod.outlook.com>
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Hi, I am running VirtualBox under FreeBSD 10.2 amd64. I created a Windows XP vm for some work I need to do. The vm needs data which I placed on a USB pen drive. I added a filter under VirtualBox to pass the pen drive to the vm and then started the vm. The pen drive for some reason is not smoothly visible to the vm - the icon for removable drive in the vm keeps coming and going every 1-2 seconds. I think the problem is the Gnome3 desktop environment and VirtualBox are competing for the USB pen drive. On the host FreeBSD system, I repeatedly get error messages "Unable to mount volume" - some error related to HALD. I tried setting hald_enable="NO" in /etc/rc.conf and then rebooted FreeBSD. Upon restart, the situation remains the same - the vm does not see the pen drive long enough for the data to be copied out. Can someone please help me ? What I want is that the pen drive is under the control of VirtualBox, with no interference from the desktop environment. Thanks for any help. -- Regards Manish Jainhelp
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