On 27/03/11 11:58, Claude Jones wrote:
On Sunday, March 27, 2011, Bob Goodwin wrote:
> Therein lies my problem, sftp to where? How do I
> address the shared files in the virtual WindowsXP. I even
> copied them to a new directory under the "c" drive designation
> but I can't find the virtual files from here in F14.
>
> It may be obvious but I don't see it, makes me feel
> dumb!
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')
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
--
Claude Jones
Brunswick, MD, USA
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