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Date:      Tue, 05 Jul 2016 09:54:43 -0400
From:      Lowell Gilbert <freebsd-questions-local@be-well.ilk.org>
To:        Manish Jain <bourne.identity@hotmail.com>
Cc:        CeDeROM <cederom@tlen.pl>, "freebsd-questions\@freebsd.org" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: How to make smooth USB access available to Virtualbox vm
Message-ID:  <44vb0ktckc.fsf@lowell-desk.lan>
In-Reply-To: <VI1PR02MB097473969EFFA9FA251F63C7F6390@VI1PR02MB0974.eurprd02.prod.outlook.com> (Manish Jain's message of "Tue, 5 Jul 2016 06:39:06 %2B0000")
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Manish Jain <bourne.identity@hotmail.com> writes:

> Sounds crazy that USB is as good as missing from a supposed 
> virtualization solution.

Unfortunately, USB requires privileged access to memory. Other
peripherals don't do this, leaving it to OS driver code. In addition to
being a huge potential source of bugs, it's a security nightmare.

You might have better luck with a different brand of USB storage.



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