Date: Tue, 05 Jul 2016 09:56:25 +0200 From: =?UTF-8?Q?Sol=C3=A8ne?= <solene@perso.pw> To: Manish Jain <bourne.identity@hotmail.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: How to make smooth USB access available to Virtualbox vm Message-ID: <bfec8cd2faad34b8ee6d97344bfe4100@mail.zplay.eu> In-Reply-To: <VI1PR02MB0974C9E557F7FEBCA7D7B4FCF6380@VI1PR02MB0974.eurprd02.prod.outlook.com> References: <VI1PR02MB0974C9E557F7FEBCA7D7B4FCF6380@VI1PR02MB0974.eurprd02.prod.outlook.com>
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Le 2016-07-05 01:35, Manish Jain a écrit : > 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. Hello, I am not sure this is possible, the handbook contains contradiction about usb support : https://www.freebsd.org/doc/handbook/virtualization-host-virtualbox.html On the top it's said that you need to install extension pack to get USB but that this pack isn't available on FreeBSD > but with closed-source components available in a separate extension > pack. These components include support for USB 2.0 devices. > More information may be found on the “Downloads” page of the > VirtualBox™ wiki. Currently, these extensions are not available for > FreeBSD. And in the middle of the page, there is a section about "21.6.2. VirtualBox™ USB Support" The official wiki confirms that USB2/USB3 supports is given by installing extensions https://www.virtualbox.org/manual/ch03.html#settings-usb
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