[Discuss] Virtualbox/VMWare Workastation question - shares

[gaf at blu.org (Jerry Feldman)]

On 12/10/2013 09:54 PM, David Rosenstrauch wrote:
> On 12/10/2013 02:33 PM, Jerry Feldman wrote:
>> 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,
>
> Run cygwin on the Windows host and ssh/sftp into the Linux guest?
>
>
>
The real issue is that we need to create a self contained environment
because that is how our software vendor is set up. The current solution
I set up is to use Samba.

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