Sun’s VirtualBox virtual application just blows away Microsoft’s Virtual Machine and it’s free also. And its so packed filled with features, much more than Microsoft’s VM solution.
After you’ve installed Sun VirtualBox and got an OS running on it make sure you install the guest add-ons or else you’ll have to click Ctrl to escape out of your virtual machine when in it.
Then to share a folder you can do it 2 ways. You can do it via the settings when the VirtualMachine is turned off:
(setting www on my hosts’s C to be shared to this virtual PC)
Or you can do it when the VirtualMachine instance is turned on through the Shared Folders option in the Devices menu:
(setting software on drive E to be shared to this virtual PC)
Either way, you can add a shared folder and share anything from any of your Host’s drives (C, etc.). But you’d want to use the first method when your Virtual PC is shut down because otherwise your shared folders will not stay each time you stop and restart that virtual machine that you’re sharing to.
To access the shared folder on your VM in Vista specifically, type \\vboxsvr\SharedFolderName in explorer and hit enter, then it should map a drive to it:
there is how you’d share folders in Vista running on a Sun VirtualBox. It’s a joy to use this Virtual Machine software, especially when it’s free!
Another great thing about it is you can truly set as much ram as you want and really configure your machines to run blazingly fast if you have a ton of ram on your Host. I have 8 gigs ram so I can easily specify 4 gigs for a Virtual machine:
Print | posted on Thursday, July 30, 2009 8:10 PM
