Virtual Box help

[chakka]

mama sun virtual box use karala virtual machine 1k haduwa. eke work karanakota hard drive eka ( virtual drive eka nemei. C, D , E..etc ) access karanne kohomada ?

 

[chakka]

nadda kawruth

 

[stefan_86]

machan uba ahana eka echara clear na... ubata ona vm ekay idan host machine eka access karannada?

natham guest and host athara file transfer karannada?

 

[Malinga]

samanyen ehema direct physical hard disk eka access karanna bae. ehema access karannanum venama drivers arave meeva liyala thamai karanna venne. habai portable hard disk ekaknum access karanna puluvan

 

[viraj_slk]

mama sun virtual box use karala virtual machine 1k haduwa. eke work karanakota hard drive eka ( virtual drive eka nemei. C, D , E..etc ) access karanne kohomada ?

mchn I have not yet used virtual box. But have used two other VM system (VMWare and Microsoft VPC). Normally the concept is that, your original hard disk is invisible to these machines. They normally cannot be accessed while you are in the virtual machine. Ofcourse everything you save on the VM gets saved to a certain file/s on ur hard disk. everything else is invisible to the virtual machine. This is in a way a secure environment to test anything coz even if ur virtual machine catches some malware, it won't effect ur original hard drive.

One thing you can do is use the local area network and open a share folder on your local machine. I am sure ur virtual box can be setup to so that it becomes part of ur LAN. VMware and MVPC both can do that and that's how they connect to internet . MVPC on the other hand has an option, that when you enable it, you can drag and drop file directly between the virtual machine and the original desktop. As i remember vmware has the same capability.

either this drag and drop, or a shared folder is two solutions that I can think of.

 

[kosandpol]

put both the host machine and the vm in the same windows workgroup and share the drives in the host machine so that you can access them from the vm.

 

[stefan_86]

mchn I have not yet used virtual box. But have used two other VM system (VMWare and Microsoft VPC). Normally the concept is that, your original hard disk is invisible to these machines. They normally cannot be accessed while you are in the virtual machine. Ofcourse everything you save on the VM gets saved to a certain file/s on ur hard disk. everything else is invisible to the virtual machine. This is in a way a secure environment to test anything coz even if ur virtual machine catches some malware, it won't effect ur original hard drive.

One thing you can do is use the local area network and open a share folder on your local machine. I am sure ur virtual box can be setup to so that it becomes part of ur LAN. VMware and MVPC both can do that and that's how they connect to internet . MVPC on the other hand has an option, that when you enable it, you can drag and drop file directly between the virtual machine and the original desktop. As i remember vmware has the same capability.

either this drag and drop, or a shared folder is two solutions that I can think of.

ya virtual box supports both shared folder and drag & drop facility when the guest additions are installed.. also it is very easy to setup a LAN between the VM and the host by using the "host only" adapter in VMs network settings..

 

[Malinga]

oyaata onnum habai shared folder kiyana option eka pavichchi karala leesiyen eeka karaganna puluvan. adaala virtual machine eke settings valata yanna. eeta passe Shared Folders kiyana eka click karanna. e langata Add Shared Folders click karala oyaata oona partition (host os eke partition eka) eka thoranna. e langata adala virtual machine eka run karanna. e virtual machine eke thiyana OS eka anuva ara share karapu folder eka mount karaganna puluvan. Guest OS eka kivvoth oyaata karana vidiya EK kattiya kiyala dai. eeka thamai leesi ma kramaya

 

[viraj_slk]

ya virtual box supports both shared folder and drag & drop facility when the guest additions are installed.. also it is very easy to setup a LAN between the VM and the host by using the "host only" adapter in VMs network settings..

Thanks for the info. I might get a chance to use virtual box very soon

 

[chakka]

mama tama VM eka test karanawa. dekema tiyenne XP mata ona eke features check karanna. dekama XP nisa network adaptor eka use karanna barida ?

 

[stefan_86]

mama tama VM eka test karanawa. dekema tiyenne XP mata ona eke features check karanna. dekama XP nisa network adaptor eka use karanna barida ?

ehama case ekak na machan.. use karathaky.. guest additions dagatha neda?