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How do you automount usb drives directly to VirtualBox in ubuntu 12.04
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I managed to solve this myself.
This is only for USB Storage (which I needed)
Remember to create a usb filter on your Vbox machine that takes all USB devices and makes it available.
Create an udev rule file in /etc/udev/rules.d
I called mine 80-automnt.rules
Contents:
DRIVERS=="usb-storage", RUN+="/etc/udev/vboxusb.sh %p"
Create the /etc/udev/vboxusb.sh file.
Contents:
#!/bin/bash
vendorid=`/sbin/udevadm info --query=all --path=$1 | sed 's/E: -*//g' | grep "ID_VENDOR_ID" | awk -F"=" '{print $2}'`
modelid=`/sbin/udevadm info --query=all --path=$1 | sed 's/E: -*//g' | grep "ID_MODEL_ID" | awk -F"=" '{print $2}'`
set `/usr/bin/lsusb -d $vendorid:$modelid | sed 's/:.*//g'`
while [ ! -z "$1" ]; do
case $1 in
Bus) shift
busdevice="$1"
;;
Device) shift
busdevice=${busdevice}"/$1"
;;
esac
shift
done
if [ ! -z "$busdevice" ]; then
address=$(VBoxManage list usbhost | grep "Address:" | grep $busdevice | sed -e 's/Address://' -e 's/^[ ]*//')
if [ ! -z "$address" ]; then
su - YOURVBOXUSER -c "VBoxManage controlvm YOURVBOXNAME usbattach $address"
fi
fi
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