Re: Virtualbox, F14 and External USB disk

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Alain Roger wrote:
> Hi,
>
> my host is Windows 7 x64 and i have installed VirtualBox latest version.
> in VirtualBox i have a guest F14 with latest updates.
>
> when i connect my external USB disk to PC, VirtualBox detects it and 
> make it available for guest (F14) as Mass storage.
> However, under F14 i'm not able to find this disk.
> 1. how can i check for sure that USB disk is available or not ?
> 2. how should i mount it if it is not already mounted ?
>
> basically data on this USB disk should be recovered and transfered to 
> new PC (windows system).
> Western Digital (WD) have their NAS bookWorld as ext.network/USB disk 
> with Linux partitions on it.
>
> thank a lot for help.
>
> -- 
> Alain
> -----------------------------------------------------------
> Windows 7 x64 / Fedora 14 x64
> PostgreSQL 8.3.5 / MySQL 5
> Apache 2.2.16
> PHP 5.3.1
> C# 2005-2008
As far as I know you must have guest additions installed to use the 
shared folder between the two, host and guest

Also on Fedora Oracle VM Virtualbox is the one with usb support.


If you are using Windows as the host machine try VMware 6.5 or later and 
install Fedora under it
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