Attach USB Drive (OS X Host will 'steal it and Mount it' Here is what I do in these following steps, and yes it does not always work, sometimes it helps to shake the rubber chicken and call on help from the 'Virtual' gods. I do not have any terrible problems getting my USB drives to Mount though on my XP Guest, just that it ends up being a waste of time and extra steps each time I need to access a USB Drive. Whenever a 'Volume' (drive) is attached to your Mac Host, it should now appear in this newly mapped drive and become nicely accessible to your XP Guest and then select your shared folder from My Network Places / Entire Network / VirtualBox Shared Folders / \\VBOXSVR\ name_of_your_shared_Volumes_folder
Open a Windows Explorer Window and select from the Tools menu: Map Network Drive. "Drives attached to my Mac." (I named mine "Mac Volumes" Type in the Folder Path field: /Volumes My Workaround for this time sucking issue: I can also concur that mounting USB flash drives on your GUEST is a very tricky endeavor, and for what I need USB flash drives for, unnecessary. Aug 2008, 18:35įirst off, no one is stupid here, I have read words of stupidity in my time, and I do not see any here. It is truly wonderful! Thanks!!! E Posts: 10 Joined: 21. The host grabs the USB device first every time, but even when I eject from the host, the guest still can't manage to grab it.Ĭould this be an issue with SP3 in XP? For those of you that say it works for you, are you running SP3?īy the way, this is my first post, and I want to give a HUGE thanks to all the developers that have volunteered their time on this project. My guess is the host is causing some kind of conflict. When I try to select it, I get the same callee RC every time. Like Baron, I can come close at times because I can see the USB device listed on the VM guest window, but I can never get it mounted successfully. I have also tried this with and witout USB filtering. I have done everything recommended and tried every combination of ejecting/plugging a USB thumb drive, but I cannot get the XP guess to recognize it. My situation is identical to Baron's in post.
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