For example, after opening a picture with Photoshop and modifying it, ctrl+s cannot be saved, indicating that the file has been locked.Ĭopy the files in the shared folder to the local disk of Windows XP, and then copy back to the shared folder after the modification is completed. Open the file directly in the XP shared folder using the application, and it cannot be saved directly after modification. Okay, now double-click the icon in the 'network drive' to read and modify the files in the linux host By right-clicking on a shared folder and selecting Map Network Drive from the menu that pops up, you can assign a drive letter to that shared folder. Then boot into the client Windows XP, open 'My Computer', click on the menu bar 'Tools'-'Map Network Drive', the drive letter is optional, the folder is filled with ' \vboxsvr mp ', tmp is my previous setting 'Data space name', change tmp to the 'data space name' you just set, as shown below:Īfter confirming, you can see the disk label of the shared folder in the 'Network Drive', as shown below: To attach the host's shared folder to your Windows guest, open Windows Explorer and look for the folder in My Networking Place s, Entire Network, Oracle VM VirtualBox Shared Folders. Here I fill in tmp, only The read option is selected according to your own situation, after configuration, as shown below: First select your virtual system in VirtualBox, then 'Settings', select 'Data Space', click the plus button, as shown below:Ī window for adding a data space appears, click 'Other' in the 'Data space location' drop-down box, select the folder you want to share, and fill in your own name in the 'Data space name'. The next step is to set up the shared directory. After starting the virtual machine and entering XP, install the auxiliary toolkit.

Click 'Settings' in the VirtualBox control panel, then select 'CD-ROM drive' to load the image. This image file is located in the VirtualBox installation directory, mine is in the /usr/share/virtualbox directory. (Note: My host is Ubuntu Linux 8.04, the client is Windows XP, VirtualBox version 2.2.4 )Īfter installing Windows XP in VirtualBox, first install the toolkit VBoxGuestAdditions.iso.

I have written a graphic tutorial here to explain the setup process, I hope it will be helpful to everyone. Locate and highlight (from the Host OS) the folder that you want to share between the VirtualBox Guest machine and the Host and click Select Folder. Click the drop-down arrow and select Other. VirtualBox client (guest system) uses a host inside the file (host system), then throughĪ shared folder the way you can achieve this. From VirtualBox menu click Devices and choose Shared Folders-> Shared Folder Settings. System installed, in everyday use, often from the In view of the fact that services such as Alipay ignore the existence of our Linux users, there is no way, so we have to use VirtualBox virtualize a Windows system on Linux

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