Running windows programs under Linux

Peter Goggin petergoggin at bigpond.com
Mon Aug 25 16:20:41 UTC 2014


On 25/08/2014 7:55 PM, Chris Green wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 25, 2014 at 06:50:39PM +1000, 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.  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?
>>
> It's *far* simpler than memory sticks etc.
>
> Look under 'Shared Folders' in the virtual machine's settings.  There
> you can make any of the host machines directories visible to the guest
> machine.
>
I have set my linu home directory as shared in Virtualbo set up, but 
when I open the machine  Windows cannot see the shared directory. Do I 
need to set any permissions from the Linu side?

Regards

Peter Goggin

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