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From: https://blog.lobraun.de/2015/06/06/mount-sd-cards-within-virtualbox-on-mac-os-x/

Mount SD Cards within VirtualBox on Mac OS X

Sometimes you need to mount your SD cards inside a VirtualBox machine to work with the files on the card. Working with the Raspberry Pi SD card on Mac OS X is an example for this.

My Raspberry Pi runs on Linux with some version of the EXT file system. While there is some support for this on Mac OS X, the available solutions have a lot of limitations, especially when it comes to write support on EXT file systems. As I do not have an USB keyboard, I sometimes need to mount the filesystem on another system to fix a startup problem when some of my experiments go wrong.

VirtualBox in theory allows for passing the internal card reader of the MacBooks to the virtual machine. Unfortunately, this does not work for me (and it seems for many other people).