** Description changed: Moving to fuse has caused severe compatibility problems with VirtualBox. Even going through and mounting all Windows drives beforehand, and trying to access them as shared folders in VirtualBox does not work. The drives appear to show up, but are void. Cannot access external USB drive via VirtualBox either, does not show up at all. Attempting to add drives to fstab manually as done in 8.04 appears to corrupt the mount process so that the drive cannot be mounted at all. Putting the fstab back as it was did not fix this problem - had to restore image from backup. Fuse mounts the drives with generic names if no label was assigned. Unable to change names through Properties. Was able to rename from terminal after installing ntfsprogs and using ntsflabel for ntfs volumes and e2label for ext3 volumes. No option to set name during install of Ubuntu. Instructions should indicate the use of double quotes around new name as means of setting case and adding special characters like (). Should be option to keep matters as they were under 8.04. The use of uuid in fstab is counter-productive. If you install a second or third instance of Linux, the drive's uuids will change, and grub will be unable to boot to all instances if the uuid does not match up with that found in the host boot process (/boot/grub/menu.lst). You should permit generic boot order using /dev entries.. + + UPDATE: Reinstalled Ubuntu 8.04 using prefinal image (before install + process finalized), which had drives on desktop (before fuse), Then I + used update process to bring that installl up to current levels. Sun + VirtualBox was able to set these up as shared folders for guest OS + Windows XP Pro, which could not access them previously as per above + report. However, something has changed because Windows 2000 Pro will + not install as a guest now, keeps recycling when trying to set up + Network.. And as reported above, even though USB Host Proxy has been + enabled, and users enabled in groups vboxusers and vboxdrv, unable to + access external hard drive although USB and USB 2.0 support enabled in + VirtualBox and a mass storage device, external hard drive, and USB + connected printer are passed through. Of these, only the printer can be + accessed within the guest OS. + + Before changes to version 8.04, culminating in 8.04.1, the combination + of Ubuntu and VirtualBox was almost flowless. Now something is + seriously broken, and I am just trying to hekp point out where the + change occurred.
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