How can I mount an external hard drive in a VirtualBox machine

You can convert into standard image and then mount it. VBoxManage clonehd --format RAW ubuntu.vdi ubuntu.img Then mount -t ext3 -o loop,rw ./ubuntu.img /mnt

Select a virtual machine by clicking its name in the VirtualBox window. Click the Machine menu at the top of the VirtualBox window, and click Settings.

To get a volume to mount on boot, you need to edit the filesystem table, located at /etc/fstab. To do this, type Code: sudo nano /etc/fstab at Terminal in ...

For VirtualBox with a Linux guest, these are the steps to mount a shared folder: sudo VBoxControl guestproperty set /VirtualBox/GuestAdd/SharedFolders/MountDir ...

Go to the USB tab and ensure the USB controller is enabled (this is enabled by default), then press the usb plug with a green + to mount the USB device.

In the settings for your virtual machine, ensure USB is enabled and add a USB device filter so it can only be picked up by the virtual machine when it's ...

It is possible to raw mount the drive in Virtual Box, or to use the drive as a shared folder either through smb or the Shared Folders feature.

To do so, open the VirtualBox GUI, select the desired VM, click Settings, click Storage, click the Add Hard Disk button, select Choose existing drive, and then ...

Oracle VM VirtualBox can emulate the most common types of hard disk controllers typically found in computing devices: IDE, SATA (AHCI), SCSI, SAS, USB-based, ...

... disk number for the target disk to mount in VirtualBox 06. Continue with the following commands # cd to the virtualbox installation ...