There are a couple of different ways of locking the sdcard reader on your computer using virtualbox. First method it needs to be detected as a USB device, then you set up a USB filter. The second method involves writing a config file for it which seemed fairly easy / straight forward ( on Windows anyhow ).
Let me see f i can find the link that explains what i mean. On Sun, Jun 29, 2014 at 2:18 PM, Mark Barton <[email protected]> wrote: > On 6/29/14 5:00 PM, John Syn wrote: > >> From: Charles Kerr<[email protected]> >> Reply-To: "[email protected]"<[email protected]> >> Date: Sunday, June 29, 2014 at 1:50 PM >> To: "[email protected]"<[email protected]> >> Subject: [beagleboard] Building Debian BBB image using Robert Nelsons >> page >> on iMac using Debian on vmware fusion >> >> I am running Debian under VMware Fusion no my iMac and following Robert >>> Nelsons wiki on building an BBB image. On VMWare fusion, one can not >>> see the >>> SDCard (it is a PIC device) directly, and can only share it as a folder. >>> Of >>> course, that won't work when one gets to the partitioning section of the >>> instructions. I was going to do this on the Mac directly, but the mac >>> can't >>> see ext4 that I am aware of. Does anyone have suggestions or experience >>> with >>> this scenario? >>> >> I tried both VMWare and Parallels on my Mac and generally I have found >> Parallels to have fewer issues like this. BTW, other users on this list >> have >> experienced the same issue with VMWare running on Windows. >> >> Regards, >> John >> >>> -- >>> For more options, visit http://beagleboard.org/discuss >>> --- >>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >>> "BeagleBoard" group. >>> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >>> email to [email protected]. >>> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >>> >> >> I use VMware on a MacBook Pro and the SD reader shows up as Apple > internal card reader under Virtual Machine->USB & Bluetooth. It connects to > the VM as if it was a USB drive. I'm still on Mountain Lion and have not > moved to Mavericks just yet. > > Mark > > > -- > For more options, visit http://beagleboard.org/discuss > --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "BeagleBoard" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- For more options, visit http://beagleboard.org/discuss --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "BeagleBoard" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
