Hi,
I have installed XP in VirtualBox on my KDE4.2 11.1, which works pretty fine except for the folder sharing, which is very slow. I need XP because there is some modeling software I will have to run that is Windoze only, plus I need to check formatting for OpenOffice documents I am sharing with people. I thought a virtual windows machine would be the best way to handle this.
The problem is, I was hoping to run the windows virtual machine primarily accessing the linux file system for storage, etc. Folder looks too slow, and I have tried tweaking it to no effect e.g. modifying \windows\system32\drivers\etc\hosts by appending additional terms (in bold):
127.0.0.1 localhost vboxsvr my_hostname
I was wondering two things, for which I would appreciate advice:
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Are there are methods for getting a “normal” speed of folder/file sharing between guest and host (i.e. the typical speed one would expect within the operating system)? Would Samba be any faster?
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If not, is it possible to use something like Ext2IFS in XP to read and write to the host file system? I am guessing no, since I have never heard any glimmer of this mentioned (except for accessing between dual-boot XP-linux systems), but thought I would check up on it.
Thanks in advance for any advice.