Upgrading to 16.04

[Ralf Mardorf]

On Wed, 24 Aug 2016 12:17:22 +0100, Liam Proven wrote:
>If you want to give a VM direct access to a USB *storage* device on
>the host, it must not be mounted on the host. It needs to be
>unmounted, and you give the VM exclusive access to the relevant node
>in the /dev directory, e.g. /dev/sdc

Hi,

without testing it, I guess this not necessarily is correct in all
cases. I suspect, if you mount an USB stick or USB hard disk drive and
you set up user permissions correctly by the Linux host, you could add
it as a shared folder and access it with the guest operating system, as
long as you don't check this USB device, in the USB device list
of virtualbox. IOW you don't enable the access by virtualbox's USB and
you don't use hot-plugging from the guest's operating system, you
access it as a shared storage device folder, after making it
accessible for the Linux host's user.

This at least would be, what I would try to do, if I wouldn't follow
another approach. I have one shared folder on an internal hard disk
drive and copy or move items between this shared folder and USB devices
mounted by the Linux host.

Regards,
Ralf