Re: Virtualbox, F14 and External USB disk
On Sat, 2010-11-27 at 09:22 -0600, Richard Shaw wrote:
On Thu, Nov 25, 2010 at 3:27 PM, Alain Roger
<raf.news(a)gmail.com> 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.
I believe your disk can only be available to one system at a time. If
you have it mounted under your guest then it is not available to the
host. Unmount it in Virtualbox and it should show back up on the host.
Not so. I see my external disk as available under VBox Windows (guest)
even while it's already mounted under F14 (host). I don't use it of
course, that would be crazy, but it's certainly there. Same happens if I
plugin a pendrive or iPhone. They show up under both systems.
To the OP: my memory is hazy on this, but I think you need to a)
shutdown the guest (not just pause it), b) go to the "add disk" dialogue
under VBox, possibly under the Machine menu, c) add the disk as a new
attachment to IDE or SATA and note its device name, d) fire up the guest
system and try to mount the device. Something along those lines in any
case.
And as a last resort, you could always read the manual :-)
poc