help with VBox 2.1 and Ubuntu 8.10

[Bigfoot009]

I'm running Ubuntu 8.1 and Virtualbox 2.1 and I wanted to know if it's possible to access my external hard drive on my VM. I also got an error


Could not load the Host USB Proxy Service (VERR_FILE_NOT_FOUND). The service might be not installed on the host computer.


Result Code:
NS_ERROR_FAILURE (0x00004005)
Component:
Host
Interface:
IHost {f39438d7-abfd-409b-bc80-5f5291d92897}
Callee:
IMachine {ea6fb7ea-1993-4642-b113-f29eb39e0df0}


any help would be greatly appreciated.

[albinootje]

I'm running Ubuntu 8.1 and Virtualbox 2.1 and I wanted to know if it's possible to access my external hard drive on my VM. I also got an error

Could not load the Host USB Proxy Service (VERR_FILE_NOT_FOUND). The service might be not installed on the host computer.


You can solve that annoying problem as following,
read the section about USB all the way down at this page :
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/VirtualBox

And a perhaps easier solution that I'm using at work, is to make the /media folder from Ubuntu visible through "shared folders" in the guest OS.

[bodhi.zazen]

Or you can use shared folders or a network protocol such as Samba.