I've received a BeagleBone, and am interested in installing the SDK
from the included MicroSD card. I am running Ubuntu 11.04 as a guest
OS within VirtualBox on a Mac OS 10.6 Snow Leopard host.
Problem is, I can not see either the BeagleBoard or the card in a card
reader from within the Ubuntu guest. I have 2 questions:
a) Is there anything on the MicroSD card that is not in the AM335xSDK
05_03_02_00 download?
b) Has anyone else seen the BeagleBone as a mountable device running
Linux within a VM?
Otherwise, I'm pretty happy installing and running "normal" tools
directly on the Beagleboard!
Hi, Mike -- my first post as well. I'm loving my Bone and xM/ULCD7, though I've been mostly in problem-solving mode so far.
I am running Ubuntu 11.04 as a guest
OS within VirtualBox on a Mac OS 10.6 Snow Leopard host.
Problem is, I can not see either the BeagleBoard or the card in a card
reader from within the Ubuntu guest. I have 2 questions:
a) Is there anything on the MicroSD card that is not in the AM335xSDK
05_03_02_00 download?
b) Has anyone else seen the BeagleBone as a mountable device running
Linux within a VM?
I have the same set-up -- Ubuntu 11.10 in a VirtualBox VM under Snow Leopard. If I use the standard SD card adapter, OS X does not see the microSD card at all, using both the internal iMac SD card slot and an external Logitech card reader.
However, I *can* see the microSD if I use the little USB adapter that came with my cards. It mounts as a volume on OS X, and I can unmount it (I use Disk Utility but umount should work) and attach it to the VM. The VM can then mount it, or access it directly via /dev/sdb.
[I never saw my reply make it to the list (checked the web site, too), so I'll send this again. Apologies if this is a repeat post for some.]
Hi - first post here.
Hi, Mike -- my first post as well. I'm loving my Bone and xM/ULCD7, though I've been mostly in problem-solving mode so far. While I don't have specific answers to your 2 questions, maybe this info will help.
I've received a BeagleBone, and am interested in installing the SDK
from the included MicroSD card. I am running Ubuntu 11.04 as a guest
OS within VirtualBox on a Mac OS 10.6 Snow Leopard host.
Problem is, I can not see either the BeagleBoard or the card in a card
reader from within the Ubuntu guest.
I have the same set-up -- Ubuntu 11.10 in a VirtualBox VM under Snow Leopard. If I use the standard SD card adapter, OS X does not see the microSD card at all, using both the internal iMac SD card slot and an external Logitech card reader.
However, I *can* see the microSD if I use the little USB adapter that came with my cards. It mounts as a volume on OS X, and I can eject it (I use Disk Utility but umount should work) and attach it to the VM. It shows up in the VM as /dev/sdc for me (I have 2 virtual hard drives); you might see it as /dev/sdb.
VirtualBox seems a little quirky about USB devices; I had to keep poking at it and inserting/removing the card to get everything to work right, but the process is basically what I wrote above.
I am doing the same thing using Fedora running in Parallels under OS X
10.7. If the VM is running and I insert the SD card in a USB adapter,
Parallels asks me whether I want to send the USB device to OS X or
Fedora. The same is true when I plug in the BeagleBone. I get one
message for "Beaglebone", then a second one for "Mass Storage Gadget"
which mounts the BB volume. When I eject it, I get a 3rd message for
"RNDIS/Ethernet Gadget". Usually I access it from the Mac, but
sometimes it's handy to point it to Linux.