Date: Tue, 5 Jul 2016 09:31:10 +0200 From: Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de> To: Ralf Mardorf <ralf.mardorf@rocketmail.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: How to make smooth USB access available to Virtualbox vm Message-ID: <20160705093110.212af4a5.freebsd@edvax.de> In-Reply-To: <20160705084630.333f2029@archlinux.localdomain> References: <VI1PR02MB0974C9E557F7FEBCA7D7B4FCF6380@VI1PR02MB0974.eurprd02.prod.outlook.com> <CAFYkXjnn3gOXAj8jAxqGqy0z0kcEFUf5jvixgO9pwGw_g=uNBg@mail.gmail.com> <20160705083230.47d99a62.freebsd@edvax.de> <20160705084630.333f2029@archlinux.localdomain>
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On Tue, 5 Jul 2016 08:46:30 +0200, Ralf Mardorf via freebsd-questions wrote: > On Tue, 5 Jul 2016 08:32:30 +0200, Polytropon wrote: > >or another means of virtual network? > > > >It sounds so stupid - it could actually work! ;-) > > This sounds not stupid, but like a good idea, since the perhaps only > good thing with vbox are easy to share folders (at least on Linux > hosts). The advantage of vbox is, that there's no need to use SAMBA. After reading your other message, I also thought about this concept: Make the directory where the USB media is being mounted on a "drive letter" (or shared "folder") for the "Windows", as if it would be a local drive. I know this is possible with wine, and VirtualBox, if I remember correctly, does support this as well, so no need to involve networking (and the complexity it adds, either by requiring a FreeBSD SAMBA install or the addition of usable FTP-ready tools on "Windows"). Of course the mount/umount operations would have to take place on the host OS, but that isn't a problem. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ...
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