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Accessing usb with VirtualBox and Windows XP

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I am using Virtual Box and Windows XP. How do I get XP to recognize the usb ports and the flash card reader port?

Greg
Clackamas, Oregon

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Ian Fleming (iflema-deactivatedaccount) said : 		#1

Hi Greg.....

Are you using virtualbox or virtualbox-OSE?

If the latter try here http://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Linux_Downloads

The OSE version does not support usb.

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Greg (gsmorgansen) said : 		#2

Thanks Ian. I am not sure of the version. To be on the right side of this issue, I will re-install with the non-OSE version and see what happens.

Thanks...Greg

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Greg (gsmorgansen) said : 		#3

On 05/20/2010 05:35 PM, Ian Fleming wrote:
> Your question #111775 on Ubuntu changed:
> https://answers.edge.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+question/111775
>
> Ian Fleming posted a new comment:
> Hi Greg.....
>
> Are you using virtualbox or virtualbox-OSE?
>
> If the latter try here http://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Linux_Downloads
>
> The OSE version does not support usb.
>
>
 Thanks Ian. I will try the non-OSE version.

Greg :-)

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said : 		#4

You can mark the /media and /home folders as accessible from the virtualbox as "drives" you can then mount these "drives" and access the USB. It's not very graceful but could be a solution.

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