Running windows programs under Linux

[Colin Law]

On 25 August 2014 09:50, Peter Goggin <petergoggin at bigpond.com> wrote:
> Further to my earlier message I have installed Virtualbox on my test
> machine. I have installed Windows XP and Office XP in the virtual machine. I
> now want to be able to exchange data betwen the Virtual Windows machine and
> the Ubuntu operating system. So far I have tried copying the files to a cd
> but the virtual machine (Windows XP) claims the cd is the wrong format
> although it was created by a windows XP laptop.  I have copied the files to
> a usb stick but I cannot see how to access it from the Virtual XP machine.
> Is there any way of accessing the virtual machine disk space from the linu
> host and vice versa?

https://forums.virtualbox.org/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=20713 for how to
access the host machine file system from virtualbox.  Did you not try
google for this?

Colin