I’m running virtualbox and when I try to burn a CD in k3b it says the
device is locked by the vm. (Host is Linux, guest OS in vb is XP).
How can I set it to let K3b control the burner? I need read access in
the vm, but do my writing in Linux. Thanks…
Kevin Miller
http://www.alaska.net/~atftb
Juneau, Alaska
Registered Linux User No: 307357, http://counter.li.org
Hi!
Is there any mounted CD/DVD drive in VirtualBox? Check under VBox -> Machine CD/DVD-ROM.
Good luck.
Kevin Miller schrieb:
> I’m running virtualbox and when I try to burn a CD in k3b it says the
> device is locked by the vm. (Host is Linux, guest OS in vb is XP).
>
> How can I set it to let K3b control the burner? I need read access in
> the vm, but do my writing in Linux. Thanks…
I don’t think that’s doable in the current state of affairs.
It’s difficult enough already to get a VM to notice a disc change.
IMHO your only chance is to manually disconnect the drive from the
VM before using it in K3B, and reconnect it afterwards.
HTH
T.
Tilman Schmidt wrote:
> Kevin Miller schrieb:
>> I’m running virtualbox and when I try to burn a CD in k3b it says the
>> device is locked by the vm. (Host is Linux, guest OS in vb is XP).
>>
>> How can I set it to let K3b control the burner? I need read access in
>> the vm, but do my writing in Linux. Thanks…
>
> I don’t think that’s doable in the current state of affairs.
> It’s difficult enough already to get a VM to notice a disc change.
> IMHO your only chance is to manually disconnect the drive from the
> VM before using it in K3B, and reconnect it afterwards.
Rats. Oh well, I guess that’s the best bet. I don’t have to read a CD
in XP very often, so if I turn it off and do all my reading/writing in
Linux I can always copy any files I need to move to XP w/Konqueror.
Thanks for the reply…
Kevin Miller
http://www.alaska.net/~atftb
Juneau, Alaska
Registered Linux User No: 307357, http://counter.li.org
Kevin Miller;1907640 Wrote:
> I’m running virtualbox and when I try to burn a CD in k3b it says the
> device is locked by the vm. (Host is Linux, guest OS in vb is XP).
>
> How can I set it to let K3b control the burner? I need read access in
> the vm, but do my writing in Linux. Thanks…
>
> …Kevin
> –
> Kevin Miller
> ‘A Turn for the Better’ (http://www.alaska.net/~atftb)
> Juneau, Alaska
> Registered Linux User No: 307357, ‘The Linux Counter is down’
> (http://counter.li.org)
Hi!
Is there any mounted CD/DVD drive in VirtualBox? Check under VBox ->
Machine CD/DVD-ROM.
Good luck.
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Kevin Miller schrieb:
> I’m running virtualbox and when I try to burn a CD in k3b it says the
> device is locked by the vm. (Host is Linux, guest OS in vb is XP).
>
> How can I set it to let K3b control the burner? I need read access in
> the vm, but do my writing in Linux. Thanks…
I don’t think that’s doable in the current state of affairs.
It’s difficult enough already to get a VM to notice a disc change.
IMHO your only chance is to manually disconnect the drive from the
VM before using it in K3B, and reconnect it afterwards.
HTH
T.
Tilman Schmidt wrote:
> Kevin Miller schrieb:
>> I’m running virtualbox and when I try to burn a CD in k3b it says the
>> device is locked by the vm. (Host is Linux, guest OS in vb is XP).
>>
>> How can I set it to let K3b control the burner? I need read access in
>> the vm, but do my writing in Linux. Thanks…
>
> I don’t think that’s doable in the current state of affairs.
> It’s difficult enough already to get a VM to notice a disc change.
> IMHO your only chance is to manually disconnect the drive from the
> VM before using it in K3B, and reconnect it afterwards.
Rats. Oh well, I guess that’s the best bet. I don’t have to read a CD
in XP very often, so if I turn it off and do all my reading/writing in
Linux I can always copy any files I need to move to XP w/Konqueror.
Thanks for the reply…
Kevin Miller
http://www.alaska.net/~atftb
Juneau, Alaska
Registered Linux User No: 307357, http://counter.li.org