[SOLVED] LM14 under VirtualBox 4.2.4 Cannot mount USB drives
Posted: Fri Nov 23, 2012 4:08 am
I cannot mount USB hard-drive in Linux Mint 14 guest with MATE 64-bit under Virtual Box 4.2.4 on Mac OS X host. The USB hard-drive appears as ticked in Virtual Box but Linux Mint cannot see it. Even gparted and gnome-disk-util cannot find the hard-drive. Here is what I did:
Installed the extension pack for Virtual Box 4.2.4
Enabled USB 2.0 (EHCI) Controller and added specific and generic filters under Virtual Box settings.
In Linux Mint, added the user to vboxusers group.
installed guest additions
Output from
Moreover, the /etc/udev/rules.d/10-vboxdrv.rules file is missing. Virtual Box manual says this file "makes the USB devices accessible to all users in the vboxusers group." However, I do not know how to load the vboxdrv kernel module.
Could it be an issue with Virtual Box? I was able to mount the same hard-drive on standalone install of Linux Mint.
Installed the extension pack for Virtual Box 4.2.4
Enabled USB 2.0 (EHCI) Controller and added specific and generic filters under Virtual Box settings.
In Linux Mint, added the user to vboxusers group.
installed guest additions
Output from
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$ dmesg | tail
[ 178.362270] usb 1-1: >new high-speed USB device number 2 using ehci_hcd
[ 193.513749] usb 1-1: >device descriptor read/64, error -110
[ 208.762667] usb 1-1: >device descriptor read/64, error -110
[ 209.009744] usb 1-1: >new high-speed USB device number 3 using ehci_hcd
[ 224.156513] usb 1-1: >device descriptor read/64, error -110
[ 239.405686] usb 1-1: >device descriptor read/64, error -110
[ 239.652504] usb 1-1: >new high-speed USB device number 4 using ehci_hcd
[ 244.710911] usb 1-1: >device descriptor read/8, error -110
[ 249.830253] usb 1-1: >device descriptor read/8, error -110
[ 250.080682] usb 1-1: >new high-speed USB device number 5 using ehci_hcd
[ 255.121222] usb 1-1: >device descriptor read/8, error -110
[ 260.241984] usb 1-1: >device descriptor read/8, error -110
[ 260.347486] hub 1-0:1.0: >unable to enumerate USB device on port 1
Could it be an issue with Virtual Box? I was able to mount the same hard-drive on standalone install of Linux Mint.