On 06/18/2011 09:46 PM, Yasha Karant wrote:
Hi Alex,
I have installed the guest additions.
On the same hardware platform using the same release of Virtual Box
under RHEL 5.6 32 bit (CentOS 5.6), everything worked except for SAMBA
issues (basically, figuring out what network interfaces were being
used for MS Win XP Pro SP 3 to connect via the Virtual Box virtual
network interfaces that are seen by the guest.)
Now under RHEL 6 X86-64 (SL 6) with a new install of Virtual Box (same
release number of VirtualBox) for RHEL 6 X86-64, the USB devices are
not working.
I greatly would appreciate the details of what you did. I need to
make a new VM (e.g., a new file under linux) to install MS Win 7 Pro,
but I want to make certain that the MS Win XP VM is working first.
Thanks,
Yasha
On 06/18/2011 08:36 PM, Alexander Hunt wrote:
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
Hi Yasha, Good plan, no point doing the install if it doesn't accomplish
what you need. It seems to me it took 2 or 3 hours trying to figure it
out a couple months ago, but I'll start looking into it now and get back
as soon as I figure out the details, because it does work for me.
Alex
