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I'm running a VirtualBox with OpenSolaris on a Mac OS X host. I attached two USB disks to the guest and formatet them with ZFS. Unfortunately, I can't attach them durable to the VM. I added a filter to "Hold" the disks but this filter only works when there is a VM running. If the disks are attached with no VM running, then they will be attached to the host (Mac OS X).

To get the VM up and running, I have to:

Start the VM and then stop the GRUB timeout
Detach and re-attach the disks (they change from "Unavailable" to "Held" in the "usbhost" sub-command
Attach the disks to the VM (they are now changing to "Captured")
Continue the boot of the guest to mount the disks

Is there any way how to make VBox attach the disks at once?

The disks:

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UUID:               f69e9614-aeaf-4f4c-a17f-9ef95fbcbb52
VendorId:           0x13fd (13FD)
ProductId:          0x1340 (1340)
Revision:           2.16 (0216)
Manufacturer:       Generic
Product:            External
SerialNumber:       57442D574341565932303435
Address:            p=0x1340;v=0x13fd;s=0x0000f20725c70abf;l=0x24720000
Current State:      Unavailable

UUID:               2bf43b45-0020-4db6-b64f-a9d6edad5ae8
VendorId:           0x13fd (13FD)
ProductId:          0x1340 (1340)
Revision:           2.16 (0216)
Manufacturer:       Generic
Product:            External
SerialNumber:       57442D574341565932303435
Address:            p=0x1340;v=0x13fd;s=0x0000f2095a8072e7;l=0x24730000
Current State:      Unavailable

The filter:

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Global USB Device Filters:

Index:            0
Active:           yes
Action:           Hold
Name:             WD 2TB Disks
VendorId:         13fd
ProductId:        
Revision:         
Manufacturer:     
Product:          
Serial Number:

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