On Fri, Aug 14, 2015 at 04:02:08AM -0400, Renaud OLGIATI wrote: > First posting on this list; I am a complete newbee in VB, although I have > been using Linux for 20 years, and computers for 45.. > > I am learning about VB by running 4.3.30, with Guest Additions and Extension > Pack, on a Debian Wheezy 64 host system. > > When running a MS Windows XP Home Edition guest system, I have the following > problem with some of my USB pen drives: > > They do appear in the Device => USB Devices menu; but when I have checked the > entry of the drive, and open My Computer in the XP guest, the USB drive does > not show up there as a volume. > > I have checked the errant drive with # fdisk -l and it shows, like others > that do show up in My Computer, as W95 FAT32. > > Any idea ?
With the xp guest running, have you tried to unplug the drive from the host, and then plugging it back in? Also make sure the user running the xp guest is in the vboxusers group on the host. That's probably the case already, but I'm mentioning it just in case. Greg -- web site: http://www.gregn.net gpg public key: http://www.gregn.net/pubkey.asc skype: gregn1 (authorization required, add me to your contacts list first) If we haven't been in touch before, e-mail me before adding me to your contacts. -- Free domains: http://www.eu.org/ or mail [email protected] ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ VBox-users-community mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/vbox-users-community _______________________________________________ Unsubscribe: mailto:[email protected]?subject=unsubscribe
