Hey there Richard, the newest version of Ubuntu (7.10) can read/write to NTFS partition. This being said, you should be able to point VirtualBox to the NTFS drive and use it as a shared folder. This would allow your son to see the Windows files from both the windows VM, and the Linux host. If you have any questions, or need some help with this, feel free to shoot me an E-mail.
Thanks, Guy At 02:47 PM 10/19/2007, you wrote: >Hi all > >Ive just moved my son over to linux, which he seem to like :) > >There are two hard drives on his machine, one with the linux partitions >and the other he has used to back up his old windows files. > >Question > >Can Vbox running on a linux host access the second hard drive, I sure >it should be able to read files on the NTFS drive, but can it write to >that drive ? >-- > >Best Wishes > >Richard Bown > >~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ >Registered Linux User 365161 >OS Mandriva 2008.0 Kernel 2.6.22.9-desktop-1mdv >HAM Callsign G8JVM : Locator IO82SP >QRV all bands 80mtrs to 3 cms ,( non WARC ) >http://www.software-radio.org.uk >~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > > >_______________________________________________ >vbox-users mailing list >[email protected] >http://vbox.innotek.de/mailman/listinfo/vbox-users _______________________________________________ vbox-users mailing list [email protected] http://vbox.innotek.de/mailman/listinfo/vbox-users
