On Sat, Nov 27, 2010 at 12:26 PM, Patrick O'Callaghan <pocallaghan@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 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@xxxxxxxxx> 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. I have to disagree with your here. I just tried it to confirm and when I plugged in my USB flash drive it showed up on my desktop and opened in Nautilus as I expected. When I right-clicked on the USB icon in VB and checked the flash drive it disappeared from my desktop and was no longer listed in /media and was accessible from Windows XP. When I unplugged it from XP (virtually) it reappeared on my F14 desktop. > 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. As far as I can tell the OP is wanting to use a USB disk like a USB disk, not raw disk access. If you do that, then yes, it is available on both systems, but that would be necessary and potentially dangerous. RIchard -- 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
