Mount USB Flash drive in Linux guest

[dafunkphenom]

Hi,

I'm a Linux Noob and I have a question. I have a CENTOS 5.4 guest installed and I was wondering if it's possible to somehow mount my physical USB? I have a USB flash drive formatted as FAT32 and I would like to be able to view the files.

[AWo]

Yes, that should be possible.

You need to add a USB controller to the guest.

You need to know as which device the guest Linux identifies the USB drive. Then you can mount it with

mount -t fat32 /dev/

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Edited by AWo

[continuum]

I guess you have a Windows host ?

You must unmount the stick in Windows before you can use it with a VM.

Unmount = remove driveletter




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[dafunkphenom]

Yes I have a Vista host. OK I did not unmount it from the host. I will try that when I get home.

Do I still have to add a USB controller? No idea on how to do this

[continuum · Accepted solution]

Just add the controller with the Virtual Hardware Editor - nothing tricky




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