[muglo] Re: Creating Shared Folder in Virtual Box
- From: Dean Danis <dean_danis@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <muglo@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 7 Jul 2010 16:02:04 -0400
Went through the installation. Opened "My Computer" and found VB Guest
Additions occupied Drive D. Double-clicking on the icon simply launched the
Wizard installer again. That doesn't seem right. I expected it to open up like
any disc or folder and show contents (in this case, nothing). Which begs the
question, where is the VB folder on the Mac in which I'd place files to be
moved over to Windows?
-> You still have to set a drive letter in Windows to the shared folder you set
up in VirtualBox. Vistualbox acts as a server, so you need to mount a remote
drive that points to the VB folder you set up.
Also, I want to install anti-virus software and find that the McAfee Anti-virus
disc is not recognized. I suspect that that is because Drive D is already
occupied by Guest Additions. Seems that I have to remove VB Guest Additions
when I want to load a CD.
-> Look in the Devices menu. There is a list of devices available to the guest
OS. One of them is the physical DVD drive of your Mac. You can switch it on for
the guest and it will not be available to the Mac. Switch it off to give the
disk back to the host OS.
This was so easy with the old VirtualPC on my eMac when I created a VPC folder
on the Mac and it showed up as Drive Z in Windows, no CD conflicts.
-> It still is, just give a bit of time.
Sorry that this thread is becoming lengthy!
Bob
On 7-Jul-10, at 12:18 PM, Dean Danis wrote:
It's OK to install it. The installer does not have the rubber stamp of
Microsoft so that error comes up.
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