Hi!

I tried the following methods for sharing folders between a Linux host and a Windows XP guest:

1. Shared folders

   This works, but it is rather unstable. After a few minutes, Windows XP
   just crashes with a blue screen of death. I can reproduce it, but the
   crash appears to be just random.

   Otherwise, the performance of shared folders seems to be just right,
   but local filesystem access (i.e. NTFS in a disk image) is about 2
   times faster.

2. Samba server on the Linux guest

   This works, but since the emulated AMD PCnet card supports only 10
   Mbps, this is terribly slow.

   Since I need a realtime solution, this doesn't work for me.

3. Mounting the filesystem directly under Windows XP

   This doesn't work, because Windows XP doesn't have read-write reiserfs
   support, not even with third party add-ons.

   Migrating from reiserfs to ext2 is not an option for me, because I have
   more than 1 TB of data on reiserfs.

4. Using scp.

   This is also terribly slow, because the network card VirtualBox
   emulates supports only 10 Mbps.

   This is not an option, because I don't want to copy files, but I'd like
   to share filesystems, so Windows XP applications would be able to read
   a multi-gigabyte file on the Linux host, and generate another
   multi-gigabyte output file back onto the filesystem on the Linux host.

Have I missed a working solution?

Thanks,

Péter Szabó

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