| John BORIS on 29 Jul 2011 09:28:15 -0700 |
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| Re: [PLUG] File sharing with virtualizatio |
Eric, I don't think this is a tough job using the graphical client in Ubuntu to mount the windows drive/share. Since each machine will have its own IP address then the issue may become finding the share. Also the Windows machine would need have a user/password combo setup for the two to authenticate. I understand your feelings about Novices to Vitalization (I am one) as I have to teach my users about using the Remote Desktop in Windows to access one of my servers that holds their data. the longest part of my workshops is spent explaining to them where there desktop PC is in the My Computer dialog. One thing I found helpful with these difficult things is to capture the screens and give them a handout that shows it step by step. That way once they leave your session they can go to the handout and as they look through it they remember what you were doing and saying. It is not the "Green" thing to do but when the user is by themselves that have that paper "woobie" they can put their hands on immediately. I also give them the electronic version as well. John J. Boris, Sr. "Remember! That light at the end of the tunnel Just might be the headlight of an oncoming train!" >>> "Eric H. Johnson" <ejohnson@camalytics.com> 7/29/2011 11:42 AM >>> John, I guess a little more explanation is required. I have created a Live CD for a presentation I am giving where I have pre-installed and configured many of the applications I intend to talk about. I will be giving a stripped down version of the presentation at the upcoming August North meeting and the September West meeting. Running the live CD under VirtualBox is really easy, say from a Windows host. Install VirtualBox, create a new virtual machine, map the iso file and run. Even installing the live cd to the virtual environment is not too bad. But the thing someone getting this far may next want to do is to move / share files from the virtual client to the host. In this case, most of them will have never used virtualization before and many may never have used Linux before. So I am looking for a way that novice users can manage to share files between the two environments. I can pre-install anything necessary in the live CD such as Samba, but at the very least a mount of some sort is going to be necessary (ISTM). Thanks, Eric Eric, Now this is just windows but here is what I do on my home machine. I have Vista 64 running their Virtual PC. On my Host machine I shared out the Public directory and in the Virtual XP machine I had that Mounted through the normal windows way. Now in your case running Windows and then Ubuntu in Virtual Box I don't see why you couldn't share out the Windows directory or USB drive and then on the Virtual Ubuntu machine use Samba to connect to these shares. Now I am not sure what you want to do with the files you are sharing but just for getting to files in a common spot it should work. John J. Boris, Sr. "Remember! That light at the end of the tunnel Just might be the headlight of an oncoming train!" >>> "Eric H. Johnson" <ejohnson@camalytics.com> 7/29/2011 10:36 AM >>> Hi all, Anyone know any easy ways, and by easy ways I mean something relative novices can handle, of sharing files between a host and a virtualized client running on the host. Specifically I have Windows as the host and Ubuntu running under VirtualBox. So far I have found setting up a share to be quite difficult requiring the installation of host and client add-ons for VirtualBox, installing packages including header files on Ubuntu, and then doing a mount. Mounting something like a USB drive has been similarly non-trivial, although I may be doing something wrong there. Installing something like Dropbox is not too bad, except that it can be pretty slow if large files are involved. FTP isn't that bad either with something like Filezilla and the Filezilla server on the host. Is there anything easier? 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