Virtualbox (was Re: visualbox)

[Norman Silverstone]

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> 
> As a workaround, set up a shared drive for the XP virtual. Copy the
> files from the USB stick to the shared drive, and they will be visible
> to the XP guest.
> 
> With the guest stopped, select the guest in VB, select Settings ->
> Shared Folders, then click the plus icon and give the path to a
> directory on the host and a name for the shared folder. You can then
> mount this shared folder in the guest using that name as if it was a
> network drive.
> 
> On the host, copy the files from the USB stick to the shared folder, and
> they will be visible to the XP guest on the mounted drive. Once set up,
> this works while the guest is running too.
> 
> It's not ideal, but will solve your immediate problem while you work on
> sorting out the USB thing.

Thanks for your idea but, to a not very technical person like me this
seems really complicated I think I will drop the idea and think of
something else.

Norman