Hello Péter, A slight correction there. The virtual network card identifies itself to the guest OS as an 10Mbps PCNet (so that the guest can use it without needing special drivers), but in fact it runs as fast as your system allows. For example, scp from a Debian 3.1 guest to my host system and vice-versa gives me around 5 MByte/s (just a quick test, may depend on the guest).
Regards, Michael Szabo Peter wrote: > 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 _______________________________________________ vbox-users mailing list [email protected] http://vbox.innotek.de/mailman/listinfo/vbox-users
