NTFS-formatted USB 2 drive will not mount in Solaris guest

[rasta]

I am running a Solaris 10 u8 64-bit guest on a WinXP x64 host. I have an NTFS-formatted external USB 2.0 drive (WD Passport) which will not mount onto the guest. I have a device filter for it set up in the VM gui, and it will mount fine on the host. The same drive used to be FAT32, and it used to mount fine as such onto the guest.

Should NTFS-formatted USB 2.0 disks mount to guests in my setup?

Thank you...

[jkeil]

Solaris doesn't have built-in ntfs support.

There is the fuse project on opensolaris, that should be usable to mount a ntfs filesystem.
But I don't think it'll work on Solaris 10.
http://hub.opensolaris.org/bin/view/Pro ... se/WebHome

[rasta]

Thank you for the info. I'm a little surprised that Solaris doesn't offer NTFS support. Oh, well.

[kebabbert]

I have tried NTFS-3g on OpenSolaris. And that driver is dog slow, like 100kb/sec or so. I hope thise FUSE driver is much faster? Does anyone know how fast this driver is? Is it also 100kb/sec, which makes it impractical?

[Ramshankar]

I doubt a FUSE driver is going to better the performance.