Apology if I am in wrong place, but recently swirched to VB vs. regular partitioning and need to know how to gain access to my fat 32 data partition in win 7
Please advise and thanks
Please explain this more clearly
Apology if I am in wrong place, but recently switched to VB vs. regular partitioning and need to know how to gain access to my fat 32 data partition in win 7
Please advise and thanks
So, what I do is three fold in order to gain access to a NTFS partition in a VM running in VirtualBOX.
- I add the NTFS partition to my /etc/fstab file of my host PC & I use the options setting of defaults in the fstab file to have full read and write ability in the NTFS partition in the Host, before I ever use the VM.
- In the VM Settings Manager / Shared Folders / I add in the folder name as mounted in my host fstab file. For instance, it might be /windows/D for instance, with full access, but not auto mounted and I might just call it Windows in the VM.
- You must run the following command as root within the Virtual terminal session “mount -t vboxsf Windows /windows/D -o defaults” or add the following to a script “mount -t vboxsf Windows /windows/D -o defaults > /dev/null 2>&1”.
In the above case, the name Windows, was what you called the shared folder when you added it to the VM session. /windows/D is the name of the folder you want to mount it to in the VM session and might be the same as you used in the Host and must already exist in the VM (because you created the folder before you ran this command as root). The mount line can be added to a file like rc.local (in /etc/init.d) or like openSUSE in the file after.local. In either case, it would be run as root for you when the VM session is started.
Its hard to give exact step by step instructions for what you should do, but hopefully this gives you a better idea as to where to look.
Thank You,