Running windows programs under Linux

[Jkhatri]

On Monday 25 August 2014 02:20 PM, Peter Goggin 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.
you can mount iso images in vbox ..no need to burn CD/DVD



>   I have copied the files to a usb stick but I cannot see how to 
> access it from the Virtual XP machine.

to be able to attach USB stick or other USB devices to vbox you need to 
install Vbox extension pack... git it from here [1]

[1] 
http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/4.3.14/Oracle_VM_VirtualBox_Extension_Pack-4.3.14-95030.vbox-extpack


>   Is there any way of accessing the virtual machine disk space from 
> the linu host and vice versa?

you can use host systems directory as a shared directory ( options 
available in vbox settings )


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