I have on my laptop a windows system (windows 8), in which I have a Virtualbox installation(4.2.12, most recent). I have a virtual machine setup with the Virtualbox, and the OS is Ubuntu (12.0 LTS). I connect an USB box
(An adapter from SATA to USB
) to my laptop, and the filesystem of the SATA disk in the USB box is Ext3. Now my problem is, I can't mount the USB drive inside the VM Ubuntu system, even invisible from /dev
I checked and confirmed that,
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Virtualbox supports USB 2.0, and my USB box is USB 2.0 version. (I have installed the Oracle Extention pack with the right version)
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My SATA disk (1 TG) works well with the USB box, for I connect it to a native (I mean not a virtualbox VM) Ubuntu system, it works!
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My Ubuntu VM works well as well, with an external USB drive. I tried/confirmed with a small USB drive with FAT32 FS.
So, what may I get wrong? Appreciate help!
(Edit, below is the error messages given by Virtualbox when trying to mount the USB drive)
Failed to attach the USB device USB Storage [0016] to the virtual machine water.
USB device 'USB Storage' with UUID {1ddcbf95-913c-459f-a6da-fc7331c3c62f} is
busy with a previous request. Please try again later.
Result Code: E_INVALIDARG (0x80070057)
Component: HostUSBDevice
Interface: IHostUSBDevice {173b4b44-d268-4334-a00d-b6521c9a740a}
Callee: IConsole {db7ab4ca-2a3f-4183-9243-c1208da92392}
Best Answer
I have been dealing with this issue for a few hours now, here is your solution:
This process worked for me on Windows 8.1, I would hope that this process would work in virtually any environment.