I assume you want to access your USB flash drive and Windows partition so you can share files between them? My recommendation is to keep it simple. If you don't need to share files "live" then don't create a complicated solution.
For example: If you need to download a file (zipped program or game) on Linux so you can install and run it on FreeDOS under VirtualBox, then there's an easy solution for that: access the VirtualBox FreeDOS drive from Linux, copy the files from Linux into the virtual drive, then boot FreeDOS in the virtual drive. That's how I do it on QEMU, but the process is the same for VirtualBox. I described the process here: https://opensource.com/article/21/6/copy-files-linux-freedos Quick overview is: install libguestfs-tools. On Fedora Linux, you can install libguestfs-tools with this command: $ yum install libguestfs-tools libguestfs And to access the first partition ("/dev/sda1") on the virtual drive (let's say the virtual disk image is freedos.img) you would do this: (I like to access this as /tmp/freedos .. but you can put that wherever you like) $ mkdir /tmp/freedos $ guestmount -a freedos.img -m /dev/sda1 /tmp/freedos Then you can access the /tmp/freedos directory on Linux with your file manager, or the command line, or whatever. When you're done, and before you boot FreeDOS in VirtualBox, do this: $ guestunmount /tmp/freedos On Wed, Jul 14, 2021 at 8:05 AM kaye n <guik...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hello Friends > > My host is a linux OS. I think I have successfully installed FreeDOS in > VirtualBox. > > When the virtual FreeDOS is running, I want to be able to access my USB flash > drive as well as a Windows partition on the physical hard drive. > > I assume this is not possible? > > Thank you for your time. > Kaye > _______________________________________________ > Freedos-user mailing list > Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
