On Wednesday May 9 2007 4:38:07 pm Stevens wrote: > To anyone who has been as disappointed as I about the inability of > VirtualBox to see USB flash drives, here is my solution - my hack - of the > problem. > > It is a pain in the butt but it works. > > Plug in the USB stick, let udev create the "disk" directory in /media. > "mount" will show it mounted as /dev/sda1, but that isn't important to this > exercise. > > Setup Samba server to share /media/disk > > konqueror file browser to /media, right click on "disk" and select "Share", > share it on the web and on the local network and with Samba > > Go into the XP guest on VirtualBox and "Show network computers" > > Anyway, the point is to use Samba to share the drive instead of beating > your head against the wall with kernel hacks that don't work, etc. > > It's ugly but it works. So what if I am sharing that drive to the world? If > I unplug the drive, it can't be accessed. Also, when I unplug the > drive, /media/disk disappears so I think that any security hole disappears > with it. > > YMMV. It works for me. > > Fred
That's one way. Or you could just use the latest 2.6.18.8-0.3 kernel update for openSUSE 10.2 with the perl-bootloader module and be done with it. The insecure /proc/bus/usb file system has been reinstated. Works great and for VMware too! -- Stan -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
