This is the set-up for the paranoid:
VirtualBox installed on an encrypted partition in Ubuntu. WinXP in VirtualBox with TrueCrypt Whole Disk Encryption and - of course - the external USB encrypted hard drive.
If only I could remember the password ....
Monday, July 21, 2008
VirtualBox with external USB drive
(Ubuntu 8.04 - VirtualBox 1.6)
I use the obsolete WinXP-OS from time to time under VirtualBox. VirtualBox is a great visualization program that gives you the opportunity to try out various distros, run WinXP on you Linux-box, etc.
In it's "basic" configuration, the virtual machine has no connection with the outside world. However, you can enable network, share folders with the host OS, use the CD/DVD-drive, etc. Everything is easily enabled via the control panel for VirtualBox.
External USB-drives can be a bit tricky to enable. This link provides great instructions to get the USB drives to work.
sudo gedit /etc/init.d/mountdevsubfs.sh
Look for this section and uncomment the last four lines (which is already uncommented here):
I also had to add this to my fstab (check your correct USB-group number under "System" "Administration" "Users and Groups", mine was no. 124):
none /proc/bus/usb usbfs devgid=124,devmode=664 0 0
Now, I needed more editing of my /etc/init.d/mountdevsubfs.sh
sudo gedit /etc/init.d/mountkernfs.sh
I use the obsolete WinXP-OS from time to time under VirtualBox. VirtualBox is a great visualization program that gives you the opportunity to try out various distros, run WinXP on you Linux-box, etc.
In it's "basic" configuration, the virtual machine has no connection with the outside world. However, you can enable network, share folders with the host OS, use the CD/DVD-drive, etc. Everything is easily enabled via the control panel for VirtualBox.
External USB-drives can be a bit tricky to enable. This link provides great instructions to get the USB drives to work.
sudo gedit /etc/init.d/mountdevsubfs.sh
Look for this section and uncomment the last four lines (which is already uncommented here):
#
# Magic to make /proc/bus/usb work
#
mkdir -p /dev/bus/usb/.usbfs
domount usbfs "" /dev/bus/usb/.usbfs -obusmode=0700,devmode=0600,listmode=0644
ln -s .usbfs/devices /dev/bus/usb/devices
mount --rbind /dev/bus/usb /proc/bus/usbI also had to add this to my fstab (check your correct USB-group number under "System" "Administration" "Users and Groups", mine was no. 124):
none /proc/bus/usb usbfs devgid=124,devmode=664 0 0
Now, I needed more editing of my /etc/init.d/mountdevsubfs.sh
sudo gedit /etc/init.d/mountkernfs.sh
## Mount the usbfs for use with Virtual Box
domount usbfs usbdevfs /proc/bus/usb -onoexec,nosuid,nodev,devgid=124,devmode=664
After having used my USB-drive, VirtualBox still holds on to the USB-drive. I guess there is an easy way to fix this, but for now, I log out and in again after finishing my virtual session.
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