[Discuss] Virtualbox/VMWare Workastation question - shares

[gaf.linux at gmail.com (Jerry Feldman)]

To create a shared directory using Virtualbox Guest Additions and the
VMware equivalent, you set up virtualbox to point to a directory on the
host system that would be shared with 1 or more guests.

In a case I have, we need to share 1 or more directories from a gust OS
with the Windows Host OS. Is there a mechanism for the guest OS to share
one or more of its directories with the Host OS. With a Linux guest, the
only way that I could do this is to use Samba (or NFS) to export to the
Host OS. (Also assuming you have chosen the correct network scheme for the
guest os). In a specific case we are using bridged,

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