Re: copy files from virtualbox -

Sunday, 27 March 2011

On 03/27/2011 01:32 PM, Bob Goodwin wrote:
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 On 27/03/11 11:58, Claude Jones wrote:
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> On Sunday, March 27, 2011, Bob Goodwin wrote:
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>>         Therein lies my problem, sftp to where? How do I
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>> address the shared files in the virtual WindowsXP. I even
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>> copied them to a new directory under the "c" drive designation
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>> but I can't find the virtual files from here in F14.
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>>         It may be obvious but I don't see it, makes me feel
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>> dumb!
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> I just tried file-sharing setup between a virtual Win7 machine running 
> in Virtual Box and my Fedora 14 host. It's relatively trivial to set 
> up a share on your host machine. First, shut down the virtual machine, 
> the XP vm in your case. Then, in the VirtualBox Manager window, for 
> your machine, find the item that says "Shared Folders" - clicking on 
> that will give you a wizard that will allow you to set up a shared 
> folder on your Fedora machine that will be seen by your XP virtual 
> machine the next time you run it. When you open up XP the next time, 
> you should be able to open a Windows Explorer window and see the share 
> in the list (in my Win7 Explorer window, the share appeared at the 
> bottom of the tree that started with 'Computer')
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> So, that's one direction. If you want to be able to move files from 
> your Fedora host to your Virtual XP machine, that's a different story 
> - VNC could be a simple way to do this in addition to the other 
> suggestions you've gotten
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>
> -- 
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> Claude Jones
>
> Brunswick, MD, USA
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         I created a folder /home/bobg/winshared in this computer.

         Then in virtualbox under "Shared Folders" I entered
         /home/bobg/winshared again which it shows as "winshared   
         /home/bobg/winshared"

         In the virtual Windows I think I have tried every possible
         combination under shared folders, etc. but to no avail, no files
         are transferred to Linux and Windows does not show "winshared"
         directory. I can move files around within Windows, even tried
         creating a "winshared" directory there. The problem may well be
         that I am not dealing with the Windows side properly.

         However I'm beginning to think this project is not worth the
         effort I am putting into it.

         Thanks.

         Bob

  It should show up as a network drive. What's on D:, E:, etc.?

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-- Steve