Search code examples
windowsubuntuvirtualboxsd-card

Virtualbox Host Ubuntu 17.10, guest Windows 7 cannot get access to the sd card

I have a laptop running Ubuntu 17.10 and it has Virtualbox installed (Version 5.1.20 r114628 (Qt5.7.1)). For my guest system running Windows 7, I want to have access to the Sd-card.

I added the USB device to my virtual machine running Windows, called Lenovo Integrated SmartCard Reader[100] (via the menu)

The Lenovo Integrated SmartCard Reader is visible in the Device Manager of Windows and is installed with the proper driver.

However, if I insert a sd-card, my host os (Ubuntu) takes hold of it. I already removed the automount option with the dconf-editor. Tried several times unmount etc but no luck so far.

Any hint how to get the actual memory card visible in my guest os?

Update:

  1. Added the same device also to the device filters of Virtualbox.
Solution

  • I stopped trying to get my internal sd card reader to work in my guest OS.

    Instead, I found a tip to just buy a cheap external USB sd card reader. This reader was easy to hook up to the guest OS in Virtualbox and could easily read/write and format the sd card.

    This was faster than finding out why the internal reader did not work properly. Hope this information can also help other people.

    Cheers, EmbedWise

    Embedded Systems Enthusiast - https://www.embedwise.com/