virtual machine
I have installed Virtual Box on Machine and setup a Ubuntu 9.10 machine.
And I have an external hard drive formatted for linux. But when I hook up the external hard drive, my ubuntu 9.10 can't see the external hard drive. Can you please tell me how to setup the external hard drive for my ubuntu 9.10 environment?
Thank you.
I have been dealing with this issue for a few hours now, here is your solution:
Windows - Right click on Oracle VirtualBox and 'Run as administrator'.
Linux - Open a terminal and open Oracle VirtualBox as root (ie. 'sudo virtualbox')
Mac - Do the Apple equivalent of running a program as an administrator (I have absolutely no knowledge of Apple products).
Once you have Oracle VirtualBox running as administrator, root, etc.. go ahead and create a USB filter as instructed by Nanobrains and vvlevchenko.
This process worked for me on Windows 8.1, I would hope that this process would work in virtually any environment.
Full USB support is not provided without installing also the Oracle VM VirtualBox Extension Pack. To install, click Oracle VM VirtualBox Extension Pack - Read more here.
Then shutdown the guest OS and restart the virtual machine.
Then, just enable USB 2.0 Controller.
Adding USB filers is not in fact necessary, just connect your devices and check them in the right-click menu of the virtual machine's USB tray icon - as seen in the last image posted in the question body. In a few seconds they should be accessible just like in the host Win7 system.
As long as the external drive is selected in the virtual machine it cannot be accessed from the host system. This is the expected behavior.
VirtualBox Extension Pack is also needed for other USB operations, namely installing and using printers, faxes and scanners.
Best Answer
In the settings for your virtual machine, ensure USB is enabled and add a USB device filter so it can only be picked up by the virtual machine when it's running: