I've found a weird issue when using shared folders on a linux guest and a Windows 7 host.
If I drag and drop files into the respective folders, then there isn't a problem. It works as it should and in the linux guest the files show up as normal, are editable and so on. If however, I select a file in windows, and simply copy it to the buffer (CTRL+C) and then try and paste it into the shared folder, then in the linux guest that file or directory will show up as "invalid". Displaying the directory contents using "ls -lha" in the linux guest shows a bunch of question marks instead of the file or directory attributes. If its a file and I try to open it in vim, I will get a file not found error. If I reboot the Linux guest in Virtualbox, then the file or directory works properly. Also, if I do the copy&paste method in the windows host, and then rename THAT file in the windows host, then it shows up properly in the linux guest. If I rename the file back to what it was, it is still displayed as corrupted. As always, reboot fixes this, and dragging and dropping the file instead of copy&paste also works. Has anyone encountered this, or knows what could be causing this? I've tried disabling the clipboard in Virtualbox, since I thought that might be causing an issue, but that didn't help. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Virtualization & Cloud Management Using Capacity Planning Cloud computing makes use of virtualization - but cloud computing also focuses on allowing computing to be delivered as a service. http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfnl/114/51521223/ _______________________________________________ VBox-users-community mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/vbox-users-community
