"HELP"Cant access windows partition from a mandriva guest OS in visualbox.

tshepom · 08-22-2010, 06:34 PM

I am trying to access information inside a windows partition using a visual box, which has Mandriva 2009.1 installed as a guest OS. Pls help me to mount the windows partition.

Soadyheid · 08-22-2010, 07:02 PM

I assume you mean Sun (Oracle)'s Virtualbox? The free version does not allow you to access "external" drives. That is, external to the virtual machine. That includes any physical disk attached to the host. Bummer!

Play Bonny!

suhaib · 08-22-2010, 07:27 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Soadyheid

I assume you mean Sun (Oracle)'s Virtualbox? The free version does not allow you to access "external" drives. That is, external to the virtual machine. That includes any physical disk attached to the host. Bummer!

Play Bonny!

Funny, I'm using VirtualBox myself and was wandering how I could transfer to and fro the host and guest... I was about to give this an attempt, but luckily I read this before wasting my time. Talk about timing. Thanks!

Nothing's ever free is it? Except Linux itself

At least I have my clouds, lets hope they work...

jiml8 · 08-22-2010, 08:52 PM

Set up networking and access it via SMB.

Kenny_Strawn · 08-22-2010, 09:32 PM

Here's a thought: Dual-boot instead of using a VM. Or even better: Use something like M$ Virtual PC (if you have to) instead of VirtualBox.

tshepom · 08-23-2010, 04:24 AM

I've got MS Visual PC and a Visual workstation(VMS). I will use it instead thnx

tshepom · 08-23-2010, 04:32 AM

I think that mayb I should setup SMB as well, as I jst did my LPI and it should help me learn file sharing wif windows more. Thanx guys

catkin · 08-23-2010, 09:00 AM

Assuming that the "information inside a windows partition" is in files in one of the usual Windows file systems then, as already suggested, you could 1) on the host: share the file system 2) on the guest: install samba and network mount the share.

Alternatively you could use VirtualBox Shared Folders on host and guest. This requires VirtualBox Guest Additions on the guest. It can be simpler than the share+Samba solution.