How to access an SD card from a virtual machine?

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Published on 2012-01-01T03:00:56Z Indexed on 2012/08/30 21:41 UTC
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I want to format an SD card from my Linux virtual machine. I have a built-in SD card reader in my laptop. I tried using VirtualBox and VMware Player and installed Ubuntu 10.04 guest. None of them are showing the SD card reader as a device. I can access the SD card from the Windows host.

I am not interested in solutions using shared folders as I want to access the SD card as hardware (it should show up in /dev).

I basically want to set up the SD card for BeagleBoard, but I don't want to install physical Ubuntu in my PC.

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