From owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Tue Jul 5 15:29:21 2016 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@mailman.ysv.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A746CB21C11 for ; Tue, 5 Jul 2016 15:29:21 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from ralf.mardorf@rocketmail.com) Received: from nm7-vm8.bullet.mail.ir2.yahoo.com (nm7-vm8.bullet.mail.ir2.yahoo.com [212.82.96.133]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id E33F411E3 for ; Tue, 5 Jul 2016 15:29:20 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from ralf.mardorf@rocketmail.com) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=rocketmail.com; s=s2048; t=1467732552; bh=YYb0tSIT014gByQ2Xa1jgYnvehsc0s/BDad84bXTlGI=; h=Date:From:To:Subject:In-Reply-To:References:From:Subject; b=PvRO+IIZysEpKgGyC408LgWXpPx1suS+zVM9B91j5S9zUgw297X+uHHyL49SGKG51FMfkp/UPnUAh9/bIeKJ407KZ+/WgtK1bbnwuJNoTtsUJK2w3UH2Cswq5Pa8Itsq3Zh3ZkyFoOssK7K9tELP1M939z6gtB87fcmSV2oL/afmlRuaAeuxR8o07vNJ28D5x6OjLHem7SVz8a5MAP4VLsHO1rsvHu2rb5FjJUhll+wqST+4TonrchLQU8pqnMzBNRbqmD0SjgsX2r2s+kXl1p5ghClxFR7wLQ3MmNi4o4Y9WilhuQBtzCCawsFWA07UqEAgWgTmjZXDlM7iJR0CQg== Received: from [212.82.98.55] by nm7.bullet.mail.ir2.yahoo.com with NNFMP; 05 Jul 2016 15:29:12 -0000 Received: from [46.228.39.105] by tm8.bullet.mail.ir2.yahoo.com with NNFMP; 05 Jul 2016 15:29:12 -0000 Received: from [127.0.0.1] by smtp142.mail.ir2.yahoo.com with NNFMP; 05 Jul 2016 15:29:12 -0000 X-Yahoo-Newman-Id: 607211.4871.bm@smtp142.mail.ir2.yahoo.com X-Yahoo-Newman-Property: ymail-3 X-YMail-OSG: do2Ze7AVM1lGvM2PXzMGmw95hG9JyMI_y9h4ogCm8Yg6NJa QeX3Yh9Tm9v9cN5rN06gtk8Vdx8Zk4tJ2fm4BQWLPBnZsN5pAxaovrmPnaco LOPK0xpomOeopsz1XRhFNEYShOZQ8IKBh5Hrx0CSGzBrvm5IR9kHwQyor0u9 vbXF0gBPX4nkCY.mjNKx3HNoLy3lKu35CqhuwscRaxdg8J3czOqmYUKATAVU QYogP_Qpbye_cAY7ErBNq4ZwNFv3y2XPHIu.HuZPCj30AzStYsJmNvkhkR1i YP3jBMEQvSESOr4gKsSus2ElKVGVlSEam4C12x_523fk9fsS.8rbqgdDOMzb 4rZUxDcY6Dk7BdCNVxptJhyiSwmt7ODLPOVw5BgNKn5Qr19BCikGarubAoPY gzb1kBuCMCF0lqKIwFe87OpCjhFwpK5RbhRllgDMFdE.s8uhPra1UHEn2_vT cbm0MK.BGWbNJLHmNyu9V9_sNEORsKjyd_JzORZwWZ.r4_zgHxMKK4di1gBJ 55A_4N8TvTmaW0qmKIQRgOsEYHze5sOFwSkJAehkA9P4hl9yIANo4 X-Yahoo-SMTP: BeMCPs2swBABTJ3kAeEiC_hE0mz8jRexLddJfD8pI2j32fOacjBmXg-- Date: Tue, 5 Jul 2016 17:29:11 +0200 From: Ralf Mardorf To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: How to make smooth USB access available to Virtualbox vm Message-ID: <20160705172911.39eb85ec@archlinux.localdomain> In-Reply-To: References: <20160705083230.47d99a62.freebsd@edvax.de> X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.13.2-1-geb08800 (GTK+ 2.24.30; x86_64-arch-linux-gnu) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.22 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 05 Jul 2016 15:29:21 -0000 On Tue, 5 Jul 2016 14:15:32 +0000, Manish Jain wrote: >> Why not mount the USB stick on the FreeBSD host system (or even >> have Gnome automount it), then make the mount directory accessible >> to the "Windows" guest through localhost FTP, localhost SAMBA, or >> another means of virtual network? >> >> It sounds so stupid - it could actually work! ;-) >> > >Sounds a bit far-fetched and would anyway need to be implemented all >over again every time I install FreeBSD. It was already mentioned that virtualbox provides shared folders. Where other virtual machines require to set up SAMBA, virtualbox provides the shared folders, just a few mouse clicks away.