How To Mountain Usb Drives On Virtualbox

This is role three of the 4-part serial on VirtualBox. This post service shows y'all how to access, from your invitee OS, a flash campaign mounted on the Debian host. Parts 1, 4 demonstrate how to construct a FreeBSD virtual machine using VirtualBox on a Debian host, perform post-installation tasks, in addition to portion folders.

Prerequisites

The VirtualBox extension pack must last installed on the VirtualBox host. See part 2 for instructions.

Configuring USB

Follow the steps below to configure VirtualBox USB.

1. Add user to vboxusers group.
   VirtualBox access to the host's USB drives is entirely granted to users of the vboxusers group. As root on the host, run the next command to add together each VirtualBox user (e.g., peter) to the group.

    # usermod -aG vboxusers peter 

2. Power off VM.
   VirtualBox defaults to using USB Controller 1.1 (OHCI). Modern hardware uses USB Controller 2.0(EHCI) in addition to USB Controller 3.0(xHCI). Before y'all tin alter the USB controller protocol, the virtual machine must last powered off.
3. Open VirtualBox Manager, click Settings, in addition to direct USB.

4. Specify USB Controller.
   Select either USB 2.0 (EHCI) Controller or USB 3.0 (xHCI) Controller according to your actual hardware.
   
   Note that y'all tin add together USB Device Filters to define the types of USB drives which volition last automatically made visible to the invitee OS. Be forewarned that the USB drive, 1 time made visible to the invitee OS, volition no longer last available to the host. More on the utilisation of device filters inwards the adjacent section.

Accessing USB drive

Below is the step-by-step physical care for to mountain in addition to access a flash drive.

1. Insert the flash campaign into your host machine's USB port.
2. Unmount the flash campaign (if it is auto-mounted on your host).
   Making it available to the invitee volition automatically in addition to at 1 time unmount it from the host. To avoid whatsoever information loss due to pending writes to the drive, it is a skillful exercise to explicitly unmount the campaign prior to handing command to the guest.
3. Power on the FreeBSD guest.
4. Assign USB campaign to invitee OS.
   
   Open the virtual organization console, in addition to correct click the USB drive icon.
   
   Click to direct your USB drive.
   
   Note that this is a 1-time assignment only. Please come across instructions at the terminate of the department on how to automatically assign this detail USB campaign for all subsequent sessions.
5. Login to FreeBSD, in addition to mountain the drive.
   You tin mountain a MS-DOS based flash campaign past times running the next commands equally root. Replace /dev/da0s1 alongside the proper device identifier for your USB drive. (You tin respect out the exact device ID past times get-go running dmesg to position the device name, e.g. da0, in addition to fdisk to bring out the disk sectionalization structure, e.g., s1.)

    # mkdir -p  /media/usb  # mountain -t msdosfs  /dev/da0s1  /media/usb 

   To unmount the drive,

    # umount /media/usb 

To ever automatically assign a detail USB campaign to the invitee OS, opened upwards the VirtualBox Manager, click Settings, in addition to hence USB.

Finally, click Add USB device filter (with the + sign) icon, in addition to direct the USB campaign that is currently inserted inwards the host.

Related posts

• Part 1 of VirtualBox serial - on installation.
• Part two - post-installation.
• Part iv - on sharing folders.

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