> -----Original Message----- > From: Fernando Cassia [mailto:fcas...@gmail.com] > Sent: Saturday, February 16, 2013 4:23 AM > To: Community mailing list of VirtualBox users > Subject: Re: [VBox-users] booting a USB device in a VM > > On Sat, Feb 16, 2013 at 4:12 AM, John A. Wallace <jw72...@verizon.net> > wrote: > > In the instruction there is an illustration with an image, step #7, > > but its image is not exactly like what I see when I start to create a > > hard disk for the VM. It may be an older version on which the > illustration is based. > > Here is what the steps look like on the current version, FWIW > > http://imageshack.us/a/img543/7093/95583658.jpg > http://imageshack.us/a/img194/9260/90125828.jpg > > > Nevertheless, I was able to get around this step by using two steps. > > First I created a VM without any disk whatsoever. Secondly, after I > > created it, I went into the settings dialogue for the Storage devices > > and used the existing Sata Controller to add a disk at that point. > > 1. Can you try adding it as an IDE (not sata) drive and see if it makes > any difference?. > I got it working as sata. I had to change the setting to use ssd, and I had to give it the entire amount of video memory available. Yet, even at that, it would only boot into a tty mode. There is a good deal more physical resources available to the display when I boot into the drive instead of into Windows, as I have to do with VBox, and the GUI resolution will need to be brought down to a manageable level if I want to use it with a GUI and window manager inside of a VM, or I will change the desktop it has right now. > 2. Btw, the error message certainly looks like a file access > permission. Are you sure the file referenced is actually there?.
Yes, the file is there. Apparently, I have to run VBox with elevated privileges in Windows to access this file, which I did and it worked fine without an error. I had assumed, incorrectly it would seem, that VBox automatically starts up in Admin mode, but that seems not to be the case. It is actually a good thing that it does not need Admin privilege to run in Windows. > > While older Virtualbox versions placed vdi or vmdk images in the > ".virtualbox" folder (even on Windows) in the user´s home dir, the disk > images are now (after v4.0) stored in the subfolder of each machine Yes, thanks, I am aware of where they are in my directory. I simply followed the instructions pretty much verbatim to see whether I could even get this thing working, and I was planning to look into the placement issue later. The instructions are clearly based on older versions in more than one respect. > name. See here http://www.virtualbox.org/manual/ch10.html > > 3. I´m puzzled by the lack of the second % after USERPROFILE in the > error message. I don´t know if that was an actual missing character in > the error dialog or you left it out while transcribing it to your > email. That was simply a typo in my message, in which I changed the actual path with the equivalent variable. I avoid disclosing the users' logon information when possible. > > "Permission problem accessing the file for the medium > '%USERPROFILE\.VirtualBox\usb.vmdk' (VERR_ACCESS_DENIED)." > > In any case, I wonder why the need to use the %USERPROFILE% environment > variable instead of just using fixed paths (ie > c:\users\YOURUSERNAMEHERE\(rest of the path here) > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ The Go Parallel Website, sponsored by Intel - in partnership with Geeknet, is your hub for all things parallel software development, from weekly thought leadership blogs to news, videos, case studies, tutorials, tech docs, whitepapers, evaluation guides, and opinion stories. Check out the most recent posts - join the conversation now. http://goparallel.sourceforge.net/ _______________________________________________ VBox-users-community mailing list VBox-users-community@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/vbox-users-community _______________________________________________ Unsubscribe: mailto:vbox-users-community-requ...@lists.sourceforge.net?subject=unsubscribe
