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Subject: Re: How to make smooth USB access available to Virtualbox vm
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Excerpt from Manish Jain:

> Is there any other non-USB device which can fill in the need to make
> shared data available to the guest machine ? IOMEGA floppies I think are
> no longer used, but if there is something which provides seamless
> access, I would not mind buying some hardware to solve the problem for
> good (considering the magnitude of the problem, make that 'for very good').
	
Micronet makes Fantom external hard drives, multi-TB, USB 3.0, some also with eSATA: see micronet.com

I haven't ordered one yet but have been thinking of it.

If you don't already have eSATA port, it may be possible with a PCI or PCIE card with eSATA port(s).

You could also consider possibilities with NAS as Polytropon suggested.

Tom