I'm trying to insert a SD card into my laptop (it's got a side slot for one) and have it show up on the guest machine running in a virtual box.
Host: Windows 7 64 for x86
Guest: Ubuntu 64bit
I want to configure things such that when I insert the SDcard into my laptop and my virtual box session is running I want to be able to see the device show up in /dev/sdX on my virtual machine.
Anyone know a way to do that? None of the settings seem to deal with SD cards.
EDIT:
It was suggested I create a rawdisk with the VBoxManager.exe with elevated privlages, I attempted it, but it fails for other reasons:
C:>"Program Files\Oracle\VirtualBox\VBoxManage" internalcommands createrawvmdk
-filename MySSDDisk.vmdk -rawdisk \.\PHYSICALDRIVE3
VBoxManage.exe: error: Failed to create the VirtualBox object!
VBoxManage.exe: error: Code CO_E_SERVER_EXEC_FAILURE (0x80080005) – Server execu
tion failed (extended info not available)
VBoxManage.exe: error: Most likely, the VirtualBox COM server is not running or
failed to start.
Best Answer
From the Windows host determine the physical drive
Once you know your drive, you can attach it as a raw disk. Example below uses PhysicalDrive2. The following command must be done with elevated privileges:
Attach the disk to the Virtual box and you should see the /dev/sdx when you start up Ubuntu