Running windows programs under Linux

[NoOp]

On 08/25/2014 01:50 AM, 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?

Yes.
<https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/End-user_documentation>
<https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Community>
<https://help.ubuntu.com/community/VirtualBox>