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Harea Costicla
Harea Costicla

Reputation: 817

Access files from Linux virtual box on Windows 7

On my machine I run Windows7, now I installed the virtual box and in virtual box I put Ubuntu 14.04. On Linux I installed LAMP. Now, I want to access the folder /var/www from Linux (virtual box) on my Windows 7 machine.

In virtual box network the configuration is: Host-only Adapter. The idea is that I want to access this folder by creating a Mapped Network Drive. Do you have any ideas?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 747

Answers (2)

omeganebula
omeganebula

Reputation: 180

You may use nfs to share your folders to Windows. If it works, samba will also be a good option to go with. Make sure you're able to ping the VM which you most probably will be able to. Share your folder via NFS/Samba and I think you can share the folder.

Otherwise, you can also share the folder in Windows via the GUI that Virtualbox provides, install Virtualbox Guest Addition package and mount the shared windows folder as vboxsf type, via which you can share transfer and access files across both the operating systems.

Upvotes: 1

Ramzendo
Ramzendo

Reputation: 606

Why don't you use a bridged adapter in your virtual machine? by doing this is just like you have an additional host in your network.

Upvotes: 0

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