VirtualBox has a way to share host file directories with client VMs. Under Windows, it is fairly intuitive. Under Linux client OSes, the steps are less than clear. I don’t know whether they are documented in the users guide or not. I don’t recall it however.
- Load the Client OS Extensions.
- In Linux Client VM, verify that `lsmod | grep vbox` shows the vboxfs module.
- Host: Configure the extension to export a directory – I told it to share d:\Data from my Win7-x64 host as “Data”
- Client: sudo mount -t vboxsf Data /Data – yes, the device is just the plain “Data” and it doesn’t show up in /dev like it should.
Run that last command and BAM, it mounted. I updated the /etc/fstab with the necessary info, dismounted the drive and ran `mount -a` to test it. Joy. The hardest part was learning that vbox doesn't honor the /dev/ directories for the device and that the device name isn't intuitively named (the last 2 characters seem backwards to me).
This worked for VirtualBox v2.0.4 - v3.x.
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Far more simple is that solution :
https://www.giannistsakiris.com/inde...s-xp-guest-os/
Just select the folder in the virtualbox shared folders settings dialog box, then use the windows explorer to navigate to browse to entire network > VirtualBox shared folders > \\Vboxsvr > then you can expand all your previously configured shared folders here.
>> Added shared folder "home\me\localhost"
>> installed guest additions / restarted
>> mapped the shared folder "\\vboxsvr\localhost" as a network drive.
Presto.
I know its been a while but (after being unable to make EOS Utility to use the network share, even if it was mounted) I finally ended up with another solution - my netbook I use when controlling the camera in the field is running WinXP, EOSutil saves pictures within the guest machine and after finishing the work, I have a .bat file moving the photos to the host machine. Not charming, but it works ...
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