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townsbg: I think we were born doppelgangers, because I ended using VirtualBox as an alternative to Virtual PC. I couldn't get Virtal PC to do anything correctly. Weird!

(11-24-2009 10:45 PM)no2pencil Wrote: [ -> ]townsbg: I think we were born doppelgangers, because I ended using VirtualBox as an alternative to Virtual PC. I couldn't get Virtal PC to do anything correctly. Weird!

Do you mean started? I have a multiboot system and Virtual box didn't work for me b/c I couldn't figure out how to get the program running on 1 os to access the VM created on another os. Does that make sense? I already had them on Virtual pc anyway and I was used to it. Actually I think that in some ways I prefer vmware over virtual pc but it isn't free. My most recent interviewer sounded excited to hear that I have used vmware.

(11-24-2009 11:21 PM)townsbg Wrote: [ -> ]Do you mean started?

No, I mean it wouldn't run the programs even in the selected "mode".

(11-24-2009 11:21 PM)townsbg Wrote: [ -> ]I have a multiboot system and Virtual box didn't work for me b/c I couldn't figure out how to get the program running on 1 os to access the VM created on another os.

This is from memory, as I don't have the system in front of me :
You have to setup a mount point. So you select the folder that you wish to share & it creates it was a network drive. Once you have the network running under your OS in the Virutal Box, you can mount it with net use & then access that folder via the newly assigned network drive.

(11-24-2009 11:21 PM)townsbg Wrote: [ -> ]My most recent interviewer sounded excited to hear that I have used vmware.

vmware is nice, except that the XP image was 8 gb. But hey, if ya got it to spare... then there you have it! lol

(11-24-2009 11:49 PM)no2pencil Wrote: [ -> ]This is from memory, as I don't have the system in front of me :
You have to setup a mount point. So you select the folder that you wish to share & it creates it was a network drive. Once you have the network running under your OS in the Virutal Box, you can mount it with net use & then access that folder via the newly assigned network drive.

Well I don't understand what you mean and if you are talking about the guest or host os.

I split up the thread because I didn't want to confuse our member with what for him would be unnecessary details on a increasingly complicated topic.

Setting up Shared Folders for VirtualBox :
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Another way that I did without access to networking support was to create an ISO image of the folder & load it that way. Also you can get access to the CDROM/DVD drive, so burning a cd will work as well.

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Again, are you referring to the guest or host? I have multiple OSs on my computer and I couldn't get the program on one of the systems to see the virtual machines created on the other os. Even if I set the same folder as the default for the program on both systems (which I did) it still didn't show up on the other system.

Sorry, I thought this was self explanatory, or I don't understand your setup. neither one would surprise me as I guess I suffer from severe communication issues

The host holds the folder that you wish to share. The guess would be the VM. Yes?

Ok at the time I tried it I had XP and Vista on my computer [the host]. I don't remember which system I used at the time to set up a Virtual machine [we'll call this system A] but Virtual box on the other system [we'll call this system B] wouldn't see the virtual machine created by system A even if I set the same folder as the program's default on both systems. Is that clear enough for you? It didn't have anything to do with the guest machines sharing with each other or the host but with both of the systems being able to access the virtual machine.

(11-24-2009 11:49 PM)no2pencil Wrote: [ -> ]vmware is nice, except that the XP image was 8 gb. But hey, if ya got it to spare... then there you have it! lol

I'm wondering if perhaps you set it to automatically take up the entire size of the alloted space instead of increasing the file size dynamically. The default is the set it up as dynamic that way it doesn't increase unless it needs to. In other words if it needs to take up 5 gb it only takes up 5 gb even if the alloted size is 8 gb. Does that make sense? Unfortunately it doesn't decrease the file size dynamically but you have to tell it to which would probably take up about 15 minutes. In either case I wouldn't want it to take up that much room even though I have it.

(11-25-2009 12:06 PM)townsbg Wrote: [ -> ]a Virtual machine [we'll call this system A] but Virtual box on the other system [we'll call this system B] wouldn't see the virtual machine created by system A even if I set the same folder as the program's default on both systems.

It's a virtual machine. Remove the word virtual, & it's a machine. So you have two machines, computers, or nodes, however you refer to them. They must communicate over the network. It's not a matter of folder locations. So in order to copy files you must map a network drive. Regardless of which one you consider host or guest, they must transfer files over the network.

I don't think you get what I'm saying. If I create for example a virtual machine in XP (which I think is what I did) I would want to also be able to access it from my installation of Vista on the same computer [ie a dual boot system]. However, the program when run on Vista wouldn't recognize the VM so I couldn't run the VM from Vista. Clear enough for you?

VirtualBox that overcome all the limitations I face with VirtualPC. The main reasons why you should use VirtualBox. Like Mouse Integration, Share Folder, Super lightweight, Free as in free beer and Easy and Fast.