Hello. I am running Windows 7 via VirtualBox. I’d like the program to get one of my ext4 partitions and to share it with Windows so I can access my data from both OS. I hope you understand what I am trying to do.
Virtual or not, Windows does not understand much of an etx4 file system type.
So it can’t be done?
On 01/22/2012 07:16 AM, MoDz91 wrote:
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> So it can’t be done?
Not without rewriting Windows. 
Seriously, if you want to share stuff between the host and any guest, including
Windows, create a shared folder. You will find it in the Settings panel of the
VB GUI. I use that concept, as well as my file server to transfer stuff back and
forth between an openSUSE host and a Windows guest. On the server, Linux mounts
the share as NFS, and Windows sees it as a Samba share.
You need to run a samba server on the host. Then you can share directories on the Linux host with any Windows system (no matter if it is in a virtual or physical machine).