[Discuss] Virtualbox/VMWare Workastation question - shares

[Jerry Feldman]

That is what I thiuggt. I personally use gyest addition shares mostly to copy files. Using samba is a better solution. This is for a coworker. 
Next how do I upgade a Lenovo T420 from 8 GB to st least 16GB. ( it maxes out at 8GB :-)

Tony Koker <tkoker at gmail.com> wrote:
>Hi,
>
>I've been using Virtualbox for quite some time and have tried all kinds
>of experiments and tests.
>
> I'm mostly Linux (and mostly Ubuntu), but have successfully shared out
>from a client OS Samba to Windows and NFS to Linux using bridged
>networking.
>
>  I'm not aware of any Virtualbox feature or function that provide this
>kind of sharing, client to host.
>
>   I've actually had an issue with host shares into a client, using the
>additions feature, and have subsequently stopped using it. When
>endeavoring
>to motion a VM from host to host, host shares into clients have been a
>blocking issue (causes motion attempt to fail). I've resorted to using
>NFS
>to provide access by client of host system shares, too, to allow the
>motion
>to work.
>
>Tony Koker
>
>
>On Tue, Dec 10, 2013 at 2:33 PM, Jerry Feldman <gaf.linux at gmail.com>
>wrote:
>
>> To create a shared directory using Virtualbox Guest Additions and the
>> VMware equivalent, you set up virtualbox to point to a directory on
>the
>> host system that would be shared with 1 or more guests.
>>
>> In a case I have, we need to share 1 or more directories from a gust
>OS
>> with the Windows Host OS. Is there a mechanism for the guest OS to
>share
>> one or more of its directories with the Host OS. With a Linux guest,
>the
>> only way that I could do this is to use Samba (or NFS) to export to
>the
>> Host OS. (Also assuming you have chosen the correct network scheme
>for the
>> guest os). In a specific case we are using bridged,
>>
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