On 12/07/2009 10:35 PM, Tim Wescott wrote: > I'm in the middle of my Big Computer Upgrade, with Ubuntu 9.10 (up from > 8.10), and Windows running on VirtualBox so's I can do accounting > without getting out of Linux. > > I _thought_ that I could have access somehow to the host filesystem from > VirtualBox -- but that doesn't seem to be the case. What gives? Am I > missing something? Is the free-as-in-liberty version not capable of > this, but maybe the free-as-in-beer one is? > > I see there's a hack to get into the VirtualBox disk images -- but it is > well and truly a hack, and not something I want to base a business > practice on. > > At worst, I'm hoping for some _mild_ hack like using putty to ssh into > the same dang box from Windows to move files around. > > It's easy in the VirtualBox gui app (i rarely touch the vboxmanage command-line tools):
- select your VM definition from the list and click Settings - select "Shared Folders", the last item in the list on the left - click the icon with the + on it or press the Insert key - browse to the folder you want to access, click OK, and it should show up in the list. Now start your VM, log in, and open Windoze Explorer. In WinXP, you should see an entry names "VirtualBox Shared Folders" under My Network Places\Entire Network - you folder should appear as "\\VBOXSVR\<folder-name>". You can map this folder to a drive letter. In Win7 (and Vista, i suspect), it seems that you can't browse it in the current VBox, but you can open an Explorer window and simply type "\\VBOXSVR\<folder-name>". Drive mapping doesn't work (for me), but that's minor. Easy - no Samba or explicit sharing from the Linux side required. i rely on this for Quicken & Turbotax (at home) and for testing sw i develop (at work). ________________________________________ Joe Shisei Niski Portland, Oregon, USA _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
