[VirtualBox] was Re: visualbox

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On 07/08/2009 01:59 PM, Raquel wrote:
> On Mon, 06 Jul 2009 12:25:33 +0100
> Norman Silverstone <norman at littletank.org> wrote:
> 
>> I am a new user of VB and I am just feeling my way around. I have
>> loaded VB 3.0 PUEL and it is running Windows XP Pro in Ubuntu 9.04.
>> I would like to be able to use an external HDD with a USB
>> connection with XP but, so far, have failed to do so. Should it be
>> possible for a non technical person like me to do this, please? All
>> help greatly appreciated.
>> 
>> Norman
>> 
> 
> I don't know what your specific problem is, but the following helped
> me.
> http://www.davidgrant.ca/virtualbox_usb_windows_xp_guest_ubuntu_hardy
> 

Those instructions are very dated. You no longer should need to do any
of that.

About the only additional thing you might want to do is install dkms, see:
http://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Linux_Downloads