On Sun, Feb 22, 2009 at 09:30:50AM -0000, Ted Harding wrote:
On 22-Feb-09 09:03:01, Chris G wrote:
On Sun, Feb 22, 2009 at 07:28:18AM +0000, Peter Alcibiades wrote:
I run VB under Lenny, W2K, for a specialist CAD program. Works perfectly. Would probably work better with more memory, the rest of the system does slow down a bit. Only have 1G of which 512 is allocated to the VM.
I can't get shared folders to work, which is tiresome, so I email files back and forth - once they are exported in dxf they can be worked on in QCAD.
I'm surprised you can't get shared folders to work, it's one of the things that seemed to me to work much better in VirtualBox than in Vmware. In Vmware I resorted to using samba to share files with the Windows guest.
What problem do you have when trying to make some Linux filesystem visible to the Windows guest? -- Chris Green
I'm running Debian Etch in VirtualBox on Windows XP. I too agree that VB works very smoothly and effectively (especially since I added that extra 1GB RAM to bring it up to 2GB, since in 1GB with 512MB for the guest, XP regularly got very close to the limit!).
However, I've not noticed provision for file-sharing between the Linux guest and the XP host, and I'd be very interested in that! At present, when I want to transfer files between the two, I use a USB stick. Works fine, of course, but is quite a hassle.
So: Where does one locate the file-sharing facilities? (And I'd like it to work both ways).
Ah, you're running it the opposite way round to what I'm doing, I have a Windows XP guest running on an xubuntu 8.10 host. However as far as I can tell from the documentation it should work for you just as well as it does for me.
OK, first question, do you have the "VirtualBox Guest Additions" installed on your guest system, this is a prerequisite. Then you go to the "Devices" menu and select "Shared Folders...." and specify which folders in the host machine you want to make available to the guest machine. (That's the "Devices" menu in the VirtualBox process running on your host.)
Once you have done that you mount the shared folder as a filesystem in the Linux guest.
It's all fairly well documented in section 4.6 of the manual.