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How can I mount an external hard drive in a VirtualBox machine

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I have installed Virtual Box on Machine and setup a Ubuntu 9.10. And I have an external hard drive formatted for Linux. But when I hook up the external hard drive, my Ubuntu 9.10 can't see the external hard drive. How can I setup the external hard drive for my Ubuntu 9.10 environment?

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Fix for: How can I mount an external hard drive in a VirtualBox machine

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In the settings for your virtual machine, ensure USB is enabled and add a USB device filter so it can only be picked up by the virtual machine when it's running:

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