On 09/27/2010 10:39 AM, DB wrote: > Hi All, > > Just loaded VirtualBox on my antique system - very pleasantly surprised > how easily eveything (almost!) seems to have gone.... must be a problem > waiting to bite me! > > Anyway, reason for going down this path is to be able to use Photbook > software which runs on everything - so long as it's called Winderz! > Having got it running, I now need to be able to move photos from my > Fedora 12 external USB harddrive & there comes Problemo Uno - my virtual > machine can't see any USB ports. During installation it kept bubling on > aabout how I'd got USBFS set up & should change it, but no idea how. > > So, question to you smart folks out there.... HOW do I change the USB > file system to something it might like? Or is there a different way to > share data between the Fedora host & the XP guest machines????? > > As ever, many thanks fr all the time you spend helping me out of my "Tar > Baby" situation(s)! > > Greetings > > Dave The version of VirtualBox from the fedora repos does not include USB access. 1) Uninstall VirtualBox-OSE. 2) Then copy the repo from here http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/rpm/fedora/virtualbox.repo to yum.repos.d 3) yum install VirtualBox-3.2 (see http://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Linux_Downloads) -- -- Steve -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
