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...
NTFS-formatted USB 2 drive will not mount in Solaris guest
Re: NTFS-formatted USB 2 drive will not mount in Solaris guest
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
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
Re: NTFS-formatted USB 2 drive will not mount in Solaris guest
Thank you for the info. I'm a little surprised that Solaris doesn't offer NTFS support. Oh, well.
-
- Volunteer
- Posts: 321
- Joined: 31. May 2008, 10:00
- Primary OS: OpenSolaris 11
- VBox Version: OSE other
- Guest OSses: WinXP, RedHat, Ubuntu
Re: NTFS-formatted USB 2 drive will not mount in Solaris guest
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?
-
- Oracle Corporation
- Posts: 793
- Joined: 7. Jan 2008, 16:17
Re: NTFS-formatted USB 2 drive will not mount in Solaris guest
I doubt a FUSE driver is going to better the performance.
Oracle Corp.