Unable to read USB drives with Bodhi inside Virtualbox

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Unable to read USB drives with Bodhi inside Virtualbox Mar 26, 2023 18:09:54 GMT

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Post by earlypearly on Mar 26, 2023 18:09:54 GMT

Hello all,
I am running Bodhi from a bootable USB drive, which has Virtualbox installed, then a second Bodhi OS inside Virtualbox. For some reason, I can't get the Bodhi inside Virtualbox to recognize USB drives, and can't drag and drop files to and from the host Bodhi to the guest Bodhi. I am able to do this on Lubuntu, but not Bodhi. Does anyone have any ideas on this situation? Thank you.

Hippytaff Administrator Posts: 1,279 Likes: 763	Unable to read USB drives with Bodhi inside Virtualbox Mar 26, 2023 18:48:14 GMT via mobile earlypearly likes this Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by Hippytaff on Mar 26, 2023 18:48:14 GMT You might need to install guest-additions.
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Unable to read USB drives with Bodhi inside Virtualbox Mar 26, 2023 22:05:25 GMT

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Post by earlypearly on Mar 26, 2023 22:05:25 GMT

Thank you, Hippytaff. I did that, keying in:

sudo apt install virtualbox
sudo apt install virtualbox-ext-pack
sudo apt install virtualbox-guest-additions-iso

Maybe I also need to download guest-additions from the Virtualbox web site?

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Unable to read USB drives with Bodhi inside Virtualbox Mar 27, 2023 0:14:11 GMT Hippytaff and earlypearly like this

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Post by enigma9o7 on Mar 27, 2023 0:14:11 GMT

I think he was suggesting to install guest additions on the guest. To do so, you insert guest additions CD from the hosts virtualbox menu, then in the guest mount it (open file manager and click on it), then run the linux script with sudo.

I dunno if guest additions are needed to read USB drives tho, never tried, I use because it mainly for bi-directional clipboard sharing. It's graphics driver also makes it so you can change guest resolution from host, instead of having to set it on the guest.

(I have menus/status bars turned off, using virtualbox 6.1; should be similar on newer/older versions too)

Last Edit: Mar 27, 2023 0:15:14 GMT by enigma9o7

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earlypearly Member Posts: 37 Likes: 15	Unable to read USB drives with Bodhi inside Virtualbox Mar 28, 2023 1:08:14 GMT Hippytaff likes this Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by earlypearly on Mar 28, 2023 1:08:14 GMT Thank you, Enigma9

Unable to read USB drives with Bodhi inside Virtualbox

Post by earlypearly on Mar 26, 2023 18:09:54 GMT

Post by Hippytaff on Mar 26, 2023 18:48:14 GMT

Post by earlypearly on Mar 26, 2023 22:05:25 GMT

Post by enigma9o7 on Mar 27, 2023 0:14:11 GMT

Post by earlypearly on Mar 28, 2023 1:08:14 GMT