Joe Shisei Niski wrote: > 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). > Thanks Joe -- I didn't see that on the panel at first (I had to scroll down -- d'oh).
After installing the Virtual Box client upgrades everything went well. My accounting program doesn't see the drive, but I think the fault lies with it, not with Virtual Box. -- Tim Wescott Wescott Design Services Voice: 503-631-7815 Cell: 503-349-8432 http://www.wescottdesign.com _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
