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Date:      Sat, 4 May 2013 15:21:54 -0700
From:      Kevin Oberman <rkoberman@gmail.com>
To:        Yuri <yuri@rawbw.com>
Cc:        freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: [VBOX] Failure while attaching the physical hard drive to the guest
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On Sat, May 4, 2013 at 9:12 AM, Yuri <yuri@rawbw.com> wrote:

> On 05/04/2013 07:45, Mario Lobo wrote:
>
>> Have you tried installing guest additions and sharing your drive
>> through the shared folders feature?
>>
>
> Shared folders do work. But I need to access the drive from Linux as a
> whole, not on the file system level.
>
> On the side note, this is Linux Mint, and for some reason, even without
> installing the guest additions, all features normally enabled by additions
> work without me installing them (shared folders, screen resize, non-sticky
> mouse). I am not sure if mint comes with additions in it, or how does this
> work.
>

Mint includes VBox support, so no Guest Additions are needed or available.
(I think Ubuntu, from which Mint is descended, also is VBox ready.)

-- 
R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer
E-mail: rkoberman@gmail.com



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