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I'm running VirtualBox and want to allow my clients to access my USB drives as they are bootable and have the required .iso's installed as a bootable partition. My question is, how do I allow the VMWare clients access to them as when I try to add them in the client set up area, they are not present.
I'm running VirtualBox 5.0.14 and Centos 7.2.1511 (Core) with the 3.10.0-327.4.5.el7.x86_64 kernel.
You state your running Virtualbox but have VMWare clients? Is that a typographical error?
Not sure I exactly understand your question. You can manually add USB devices in the guest menu under the guests devices pull down menu or add a USB filter in the USB setup section for your guest so that it will be automatically connected when it starts.
Since you mentioned a bootable USB drive, it is not possible for a USB device to be accessible by both the host and client at the same time. As far as I know you can not boot a guest from a USB device. You can load the ISO file in the virtual CD drive and when you start the guest it will boot first.
The host is Centos and you have some usb's that have what I can't figure out exactly.
Are they bootable and also have an iso image on them as in grub4dos bootable?
In some cases you can get a usb attached to client OS's at boot. It will take control in settings from the host. You can also use the usb in some vm's as a virtual drive. That is use the entire usb as one would use a virtual hard drive file. Not a standard deal and could be disaster if you access it from host and client at same time. I know they have been working on getting an attached usb to boot a vm but not sure if that is out yet.
Not sure who these users are either and how they access this data.
You state your running Virtualbox but have VMWare clients? Is that a typographical error?
Sorry yes. I was using VMWare client as in "virtual client". They are VirtualBox clients, just a mistake.
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Originally Posted by michaelk
Not sure I exactly understand your question. You can manually add USB devices in the guest menu under the guests devices pull down menu or add a USB filter in the USB setup section for your guest so that it will be automatically connected when it starts.
The USB devices are not populating the pull down menu in VirtualBox Manager.
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Originally Posted by michaelk
Since you mentioned a bootable USB drive, it is not possible for a USB device to be accessible by both the host and client at the same time. As far as I know you can not boot a guest from a USB device. You can load the ISO file in the virtual CD drive and when you start the guest it will boot first.
The host OS is installed on the HDD, however I'm trying to make the virtual clients boot from USB.
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