I have installed VirtualBox and think it’s great! It was easy to install, Windows (Win2K) runs very fast and, once I had installed ‘Guest Additions’ the screen resolution was also great.
I then went on to add ‘shared folders’ and for this created a new folder in my SuSE home directory (VBox_share). Then, in VirtualBox, I declared the folder as shared and, from inside the virtual machine, I could mount that directory. Absolutely no problem. Indeed, I was even able to create a test file (a small text file) and save it. However, then the whole thing froze up on me.
I have tried everything I can think of and have installed the newest version of Virtual Box but I can’t seem to celar the problem.
This is such a shame because VirtualBox would be the perfect way for me to completely give up Windows. But I simply must be able to share folders.
Any ideas? Any tips? Or any recommendations for good HOWTOs?
asearle wrote:
> Hi everyone,
>
> I have installed VirtualBox and think it’s great! It was easy to
> install, Windows (Win2K) runs very fast and, once I had installed ‘Guest
> Additions’ the screen resolution was also great.
>
> I then went on to add ‘shared folders’ and for this created a new
> folder in my SuSE home directory (VBox_share). Then, in VirtualBox, I
> declared the folder as shared and, from inside the virtual machine, I
> could mount that directory. Absolutely no problem. Indeed, I was even
> able to create a test file (a small text file) and save it. However,
> then the whole thing froze up on me.
>
> I have tried everything I can think of and have installed the newest
> version of Virtual Box but I can’t seem to celar the problem.
>
> This is such a shame because VirtualBox would be the perfect way for me
> to completely give up Windows. But I simply must be able to share
> folders.
>
> Any ideas? Any tips? Or any recommendations for good HOWTOs?
>
> Regards and thanks,
> Alan Searle
>
>
When you say “the whole thing froze”, do you mean VBox stopped running
and won’t restart or …?
Are you running the SUSE version?
Not much help, sorry, but I have three shared folders in XP - my home
folder, a folder linked to my (soon to remove) dual boot XP plus one
other. I always access these via “\VBOXSVR<share>” under “my network
places” and not as mapped drives. Even in XP I tended to use that
mechanism for network access.
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PeeGee
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