Information re: VirtualBox

[Steven Stern]

On 04/10/2010 01:51 PM, David Bartmess wrote:
> I'm in the process of installing a new VM on VirtualBox under Fedora 12, 
> and was wondering about the placement of files. To be short, where would 
> the VM put any files that are created by, say Quicken. Are they saved in 
> a specific directory, or are they bundled into the VM disk file?
> 
> Basically, I want to be able to back them up with the rest of my Linux 
> files but if they're created within the VM and saved with the VM file, 
> then I wouldn't be able to back them up, would I?
> 
> Thanks!
> 

They're in the VM. BUT, you can create shared drives between the host
and guest. In my case, ~/vm_shared is available to my Windows XP guest.
When I use the Amazon downloader in XP, it puts its downloads in
~/vm_shared/music, although it sees it as "L:".  So, you could put
create a directory for your quicken files and make that directory
available to the VM.


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-- Steve