On 06/18/2011 09:35 PM, Alexander Hunt wrote:
On 06/18/2011 09:06 PM, Yasha Karant wrote:
I am running VirtualBox current production release as a replacement
for VMWare workstation. Under 32 bit RHEL 5, all of the hardware
worked, including USB on the identical workstation (hardware
platform) as I now have.
Using the same configuration (including changes to the groups file),
but now installing VirtualBox current production release for RHEL 6
X86-64, I cannot access the USB devices. I can indirectly through
shared folders from the MS Win guest to the linux host, but for
certain uses, MS Win requires a direct mount, not a shared folder /
network mount.
Is anyone running SL6 X86-64 with VirtualBox and accessing the USB
drive? If so, have you also configured VirtualBox, a MS Win guest,
and SAMBA on the same physical machine to allow the MS Win guest to
print to the linux host printer(s)?
Yasha Karant
Hi Yasha,
I've have SL6 X86_64, Virtualbox, and running a WinXP-Pro VM working
with direct access to USB drives. It seems to me it didn't work out of
the box, but I had to install the guest additions in the VM itself to
make that work. If you already have installed the guest additions in
Windows, or try it and it doesn't work for you, let me know and I'll
figure out and document how I did it for you. Sorry I don't know about
the printer issue and Samba, I've never tried that.
Regards,
Alex
