Date: Tue, 5 Jul 2016 19:27:01 +0200 From: Bernt Hansson <bah@bananmonarki.se> To: Manish Jain <bourne.identity@hotmail.com>, Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de>, CeDeROM <cederom@tlen.pl> Cc: "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: How to make smooth USB access available to Virtualbox vm Message-ID: <329cfc15-988a-11fc-e9f4-7423e21e1cf6@bananmonarki.se> In-Reply-To: <VI1PR02MB09744511B04DD7E41AAB6A33F6390@VI1PR02MB0974.eurprd02.prod.outlook.com> References: <VI1PR02MB0974C9E557F7FEBCA7D7B4FCF6380@VI1PR02MB0974.eurprd02.prod.outlook.com> <CAFYkXjnn3gOXAj8jAxqGqy0z0kcEFUf5jvixgO9pwGw_g=uNBg@mail.gmail.com> <20160705083230.47d99a62.freebsd@edvax.de> <VI1PR02MB09744511B04DD7E41AAB6A33F6390@VI1PR02MB0974.eurprd02.prod.outlook.com>
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On 2016-07-05 16:15, Manish Jain wrote: > On 07/05/16 12:02, Polytropon wrote: >> On Tue, 5 Jul 2016 08:10:49 +0200, CeDeROM wrote: >>> The USB support on VirtualBox is highly unreliable and version >>> dependant - it works with some releases and with some releases it does >>> not work as expected - not only on FreeBSD (I also use OSX version). >>> This is really annoying when USB stops working after an update to a >>> new version and you depend on this USB access with your work :-( >> Just an idea: >> >> Why not mount the USB stick on the FreeBSD host system (or even >> have Gnome automount it), then make the mount directory accessible >> to the "Windows" guest through localhost FTP, localhost SAMBA, or >> another means of virtual network? >> >> It sounds so stupid - it could actually work! ;-) >> > Sounds a bit far-fetched and would anyway need to be implemented all > over again every time I install FreeBSD. > > Just wondering if this is possible - I remember there was an application > (Nero, I think) - which made it possible to copy/paste to CD/DVD RW from > Explorer itself, without the need to actually burn it via a CD/DVD > frontend. Is there any way I can use a CD/DVD just as a part of the > regular filesystem ? If that is possible, the need for USB support in > vbox would largely be mitigated. > > 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'). > > Thanks for any tips. Perhaps this is worth a try. http://linux.bytesex.org/misc/webfs.html
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