![]() I tried pointing to disk1 and then to disk1a1, but neither worked. I inserted the identifier into the cut-and-paste from the instructions. (I had previously determined via the OSX Disk Utility, that the external drive was identified as disk1, containing the main file disk1a1 and the swap partition disk1a5. I got the message "Cannot open the raw disk '/dev/disk1' : VERR_ACCESS_DENIED". ![]() vmdk drive, using the host OS terminal and cut-and-paste of the terminal code. ![]() With the second link, I followed the instructions for creating the. The guest OS did not pick it up but the host OS spotted it again it and offered the same options as before. I then started VirtualBox with the Linux Mint guest and when that settled down, re-plugged the external drive. I selected "eject" and also unplugged it. It offered the option buttons for ignore, eject or initialise. I plugged the external drive in the host OSX spotted it and advised that it was not a readable format. With the first link, the thread seems to assume that the host OS had already mounted the drive (mine is "seen" by the disk utility, but won't mount.) OSXFuse is one such tool, a free open source offering that allows OS X to read EXT volumes, and if you’re comfortable with some uncertainty and risk to the Linux partition, you can even enable an experimental EXT write function too. ![]()
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