Unable to access external HDD on Virtualbox running win7 on host fedora 23-
Hi I was using fedora20 till 2 days ago. I had installed virtualbox with win7 and it was working fine. I was able to load external hard drives using the shared folder settings on the virtualbox device menu. All I had to do was "Install Guest Addition cd Image" beforehand. In the shared folder settings window I only had to add a folder path, select 'other' from the dropdown and there it was .. all my external hard drives ready to be shared. But since I installed f-23, when I try to add a shared folder from the shared folder settings I dont see any hard drives, even though they are already mounted.All I can see are 'computer' & 'username' dir. I tried browsing to '/dev/sd*#'. But no such folder exists. The one difference I saw btwn f20 and f23 is that in f23 gnome files list the external HDD under "+other locations. Now what other additional steps should I try to get my hard drives to be shared to my guest OS.
Thank you. That did it! I cannot use vote your answer as 'accepted' as it is a comment though.
@adbury: Glad you came right. I have converted it to an answer. You may mark it as right answer so we can close this thread.