[gentoo-user] VirtualBox, Gentoo, and USB thumb drives

[gentoo-user] VirtualBox, Gentoo, and USB thumb drives

[David Relson]

I've been using VirtualBox recently with 32-bit Ubuntu for a work
project. It seems that whenever my thumb drive is moved between host and
guest operating system, Gentoo is mounts it as a new device (see
below).  Can these extra device mounts be avoided?

Regards,

David

osage relson # df -h 
Filesystem            Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda1              99M   17M   78M  18% /boot
/dev/sda4             437G  226G  189G  55% /
/dev/sdb1             466G  259G  208G  56% /mnt/usbhd
/dev/sdc              7.5G  2.7G  4.8G  36% /mnt/usbkey
/dev/sdd              7.5G  2.7G  4.8G  36% /mnt/usbkey
/dev/sde              7.5G  2.7G  4.8G  36% /mnt/usbkey
/dev/sdf              7.5G  2.7G  4.8G  36% /mnt/usbkey
/dev/sdg              7.5G  2.7G  4.8G  36% /mnt/usbkey
/dev/sdh              7.5G  2.7G  4.8G  36% /mnt/usbkey
/dev/sdi              7.5G  2.7G  4.8G  36% /mnt/usbkey
/dev/sdj              7.5G  2.7G  4.8G  36% /mnt/usbkey
/dev/sdk              7.5G  2.7G  4.8G  36% /mnt/usbkey

Re: [gentoo-user] VirtualBox, Gentoo, and USB thumb drives

[Fernando Antunes]

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On Wed, Jan 20, 2010 at 2:10 AM, David Relson <relson@osagesoftware.com>wrote:

> I've been using VirtualBox recently with 32-bit Ubuntu for a work
> project. It seems that whenever my thumb drive is moved between host and
> guest operating system, Gentoo is mounts it as a new device (see
> below).  Can these extra device mounts be avoided?
>
> Regards,
>
> David
>
>

> osage relson # df -h
> Filesystem            Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
> /dev/sda1              99M   17M   78M  18% /boot
> /dev/sda4             437G  226G  189G  55% /
> /dev/sdb1             466G  259G  208G  56% /mnt/usbhd
> /dev/sdc              7.5G  2.7G  4.8G  36% /mnt/usbkey
> /dev/sdd              7.5G  2.7G  4.8G  36% /mnt/usbkey
> /dev/sde              7.5G  2.7G  4.8G  36% /mnt/usbkey
> /dev/sdf              7.5G  2.7G  4.8G  36% /mnt/usbkey
> /dev/sdg              7.5G  2.7G  4.8G  36% /mnt/usbkey
> /dev/sdh              7.5G  2.7G  4.8G  36% /mnt/usbkey
> /dev/sdi              7.5G  2.7G  4.8G  36% /mnt/usbkey
> /dev/sdj              7.5G  2.7G  4.8G  36% /mnt/usbkey
> /dev/sdk              7.5G  2.7G  4.8G  36% /mnt/usbkey
>
> This doesn't happen with me. I'm using the binary version of virtualbox.
When I plug the pen drive on Gentoo, it mount it for my host usage. When I
go to the virtualbox menu usb devices and mark the checkbox for my pen
drive, the pen drive is unmounted on the host and mounted on the guest (btw,
Windows XP). The inverse process occurs when a uncheck the usb on the
virtualbox usb devices menu.

Guess, are you using the open source of virtualboxes ? I think there are
difference in the usb usability betweek binary and open source version.

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Re: [gentoo-user] VirtualBox, Gentoo, and USB thumb drives

[ubiquitous1980]

Fernando Antunes wrote:
>
>
> On Wed, Jan 20, 2010 at 2:10 AM, David Relson
> <relson@osagesoftware.com <mailto:relson@osagesoftware.com>> wrote:
>
>     I've been using VirtualBox recently with 32-bit Ubuntu for a work
>     project. It seems that whenever my thumb drive is moved between
>     host and
>     guest operating system, Gentoo is mounts it as a new device (see
>     below).  Can these extra device mounts be avoided?
>
>     Regards,
>
>     David
>
>  
>
>     osage relson # df -h
>     Filesystem            Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
>     /dev/sda1              99M   17M   78M  18% /boot
>     /dev/sda4             437G  226G  189G  55% /
>     /dev/sdb1             466G  259G  208G  56% /mnt/usbhd
>     /dev/sdc              7.5G  2.7G  4.8G  36% /mnt/usbkey
>     /dev/sdd              7.5G  2.7G  4.8G  36% /mnt/usbkey
>     /dev/sde              7.5G  2.7G  4.8G  36% /mnt/usbkey
>     /dev/sdf              7.5G  2.7G  4.8G  36% /mnt/usbkey
>     /dev/sdg              7.5G  2.7G  4.8G  36% /mnt/usbkey
>     /dev/sdh              7.5G  2.7G  4.8G  36% /mnt/usbkey
>     /dev/sdi              7.5G  2.7G  4.8G  36% /mnt/usbkey
>     /dev/sdj              7.5G  2.7G  4.8G  36% /mnt/usbkey
>     /dev/sdk              7.5G  2.7G  4.8G  36% /mnt/usbkey
>
> This doesn't happen with me. I'm using the binary version of
> virtualbox. When I plug the pen drive on Gentoo, it mount it for my
> host usage. When I go to the virtualbox menu usb devices and mark the
> checkbox for my pen drive, the pen drive is unmounted on the host and
> mounted on the guest (btw, Windows XP). The inverse process occurs
> when a uncheck the usb on the virtualbox usb devices menu.
>
> Guess, are you using the open source of virtualboxes ? I think there
> are difference in the usb usability betweek binary and open source
> version.
>
There is no official support for USB within the OSE version of
virtualbox.  This is one of those pesky annoyances...I have heard that
soft links might be the trick to activate USB in the OSE version.

Re: [gentoo-user] VirtualBox, Gentoo, and USB thumb drives

[Frank Steinmetzger]

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Am Mittwoch, 20. Januar 2010 schrieb Fernando Antunes:

> Guess, are you using the open source of virtualboxes ? I think there are
> difference in the usb usability betweek binary and open source version.

In that the OSS version does not support USB at all.
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Re: [gentoo-user] VirtualBox, Gentoo, and USB thumb drives

[Mark Knecht]

On Tue, Jan 19, 2010 at 8:10 PM, David Relson <relson@osagesoftware.com> wrote:
> I've been using VirtualBox recently with 32-bit Ubuntu for a work
> project. It seems that whenever my thumb drive is moved between host and
> guest operating system, Gentoo is mounts it as a new device (see
> below).  Can these extra device mounts be avoided?
>
> Regards,
>
> David
>
> osage relson # df -h
> Filesystem            Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
> /dev/sda1              99M   17M   78M  18% /boot
> /dev/sda4             437G  226G  189G  55% /
> /dev/sdb1             466G  259G  208G  56% /mnt/usbhd
> /dev/sdc              7.5G  2.7G  4.8G  36% /mnt/usbkey
> /dev/sdd              7.5G  2.7G  4.8G  36% /mnt/usbkey
> /dev/sde              7.5G  2.7G  4.8G  36% /mnt/usbkey
> /dev/sdf              7.5G  2.7G  4.8G  36% /mnt/usbkey
> /dev/sdg              7.5G  2.7G  4.8G  36% /mnt/usbkey
> /dev/sdh              7.5G  2.7G  4.8G  36% /mnt/usbkey
> /dev/sdi              7.5G  2.7G  4.8G  36% /mnt/usbkey
> /dev/sdj              7.5G  2.7G  4.8G  36% /mnt/usbkey
> /dev/sdk              7.5G  2.7G  4.8G  36% /mnt/usbkey
>
>

1) Label the partition and then possibly put mount instructions in fstab?

2) Are you properly unmounting the thumb drive each time you remove
it? Seems like maybe the system thinks you're not...

HTH,
Mark