Dear All:
I noticed something with VirtualBox on MAC that I could not figure out why so I am asking here. I have been using VirtualBox on my Window 7 host machine for a while and works out great running various guests OS of Linux and Win 2008 server. I also have a Macbook and I have been using VMWare Fusion. I decided recently to just use VirtualBox on both machines. On Macbook, I got the latest VirtualBox (4.1.12) and installed Linux (Linux Mint) as guest OS. I tried to mount USB drives, all formatted as Fat32 and I got very different results (almost brand specifics). I also have VB Guest additions installed. The behavior that I am seeing: 1) Corsair brand 8GB USB Flash Drive: Mounted on MacOS side. I ejected it and went to VB menu and click on it. It mounted correctly on inside my Linux guest. 2) Western Digital 250GB USB drive: Mounted on MacOS side. I ejected it and on VB menu, it is greyed out so I am not able to select it. 3) Both Patriot 4GB USB Flash Drive & Kingston 8GB USB Flash Drive: Mounted on MacOS side. I ejected it when I go under VB menu to try and mount either one, it would just remount on the MacOS side. All of these, by the way, mounted just fine on my VirtualBox Win 7 Host machine running the same version of guest Linux OS. Is there something special on the Mac interaction with VB that I do not know? thanks -Vincent _______________________________________________ vbox-dev mailing list [email protected] https://www.virtualbox.org/mailman/listinfo/vbox-dev
