Yosemite Guest on Linux Host. USB drive not showing up.

[SavageFred]

I'm setting up an os x guest on a linux host and am having trouble connecting a USB HDD.

I'm running Ubuntu trusty 14.04 on a 2010-ish macbook pro. The guest OS is a hackintosh version of Yosemite. The hardware is obviously all compatible with my guest OS, but it is not mounting my external USB drive. I set up a USB flag for the drive in the virtualbox UI, but it still doesn't display. The USB drive is formatted as fat32. All I need to get off it a time machine backup

Virtualbox is stopping the drive from mounting in Ubuntu, which is a good start. When I list all USB devices and drives in the terminal on my guest, it's not showing the drive or recognizing that anything is plugged in to the port.

Sorry if this isn't the right place for this. I've been looking around (I've even gone to the second page of google search results... ) but this seems like a pretty unique situation. It seems like most of the support is targeted at mac on windows. It looks like this is a common problem for virtualbox, but all of the trouble shooting guides I've found are solutions for different combinations of operating systems. I'll try to hack something together, but I feel like I'm missing a simple solution.

Any help would be hugely appreciated!

Edit: I think I found the problem. The drive is USB 3.0, and vb only supports 2.0. A USB 2.0 thumbdrive was recognized by the guest OS.

[loukingjr]

First the extension pack needs to be installed and you have to add your user name to the vboxusers group then reboot your host.

I set up a USB flag for the drive in the virtualbox UI, but it still doesn't display

If by USB flag you mean a USB filter, Linux hosts do not need USB filters.

Attach the vbox.log (compressed) for the guest.

[SavageFred]

First the extension pack needs to be installed and you have to add your user name to the vboxusers group then reboot your host.

I set up a USB flag for the drive in the virtualbox UI, but it still doesn't display

If by USB flag you mean a USB filter, Linux hosts do not need USB filters.

Attach the vbox.log (compressed) for the guest.

Thanks for the reply! I meant filter when I said flag. I found the issue. I was using a USB 3.0 drive which isn't supported yet. A USB 2.0 drive mounted just fine. I'll switch everything over and go from there.

[loukingjr]

Welcome.