From owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Tue Jul 5 17:48:07 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 D7272B733ED for ; Tue, 5 Jul 2016 17:48:07 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from bah@bananmonarki.se) Received: from feeder.usenet4all.se (1-1-1-38a.far.sth.bostream.se [82.182.32.53]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 34D361DB3 for ; Tue, 5 Jul 2016 17:48:04 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from bah@bananmonarki.se) Received: from testbox.news4all.se (testbox.usenet4all.se [10.0.0.3]) by feeder.usenet4all.se (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id u65HR15O052230; Tue, 5 Jul 2016 19:27:01 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from bah@bananmonarki.se) Subject: Re: How to make smooth USB access available to Virtualbox vm To: Manish Jain , Polytropon , CeDeROM References: <20160705083230.47d99a62.freebsd@edvax.de> Cc: "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org" From: Bernt Hansson Message-ID: <329cfc15-988a-11fc-e9f4-7423e21e1cf6@bananmonarki.se> Date: Tue, 5 Jul 2016 19:27:01 +0200 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; FreeBSD amd64; rv:45.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/45.1.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed 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 17:48:07 -0000 On 2016-07-05 16:15, Manish Jain wrote: > On 07/05/16 12:02, Polytropon wrote: >> On Tue, 5 Jul 2016 08:10:49 +0200, CeDeROM wrote: >>> The USB support on VirtualBox is highly unreliable and version >>> dependant - it works with some releases and with some releases it does >>> not work as expected - not only on FreeBSD (I also use OSX version). >>> This is really annoying when USB stops working after an update to a >>> new version and you depend on this USB access with your work :-( >> Just an idea: >> >> 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. > > Just wondering if this is possible - I remember there was an application > (Nero, I think) - which made it possible to copy/paste to CD/DVD RW from > Explorer itself, without the need to actually burn it via a CD/DVD > frontend. Is there any way I can use a CD/DVD just as a part of the > regular filesystem ? If that is possible, the need for USB support in > vbox would largely be mitigated. > > Is there any other non-USB device which can fill in the need to make > shared data available to the guest machine ? IOMEGA floppies I think are > no longer used, but if there is something which provides seamless > access, I would not mind buying some hardware to solve the problem for > good (considering the magnitude of the problem, make that 'for very good'). > > Thanks for any tips. Perhaps this is worth a try. http://linux.bytesex.org/misc/webfs.html