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VirtualBox - Sharing

August 14th, 2009 sadegh 2 comments
VirtualBox

VirtualBox


VirtualBox OSE 2.1.4 comes along with Ubuntu jaunty jackalope.
Its a great virtualing solution but one part of it may bother you and that is Sharing.
Actually Sharing files & folders is not that much hard or annoying but sometimes it can be and it really bothered me.
I installed windows xp in virtual box easily and just wanted to share my folders with it. So under Devices menu I choosed Shared Folders and I added folder which I wanted to be shared but it did not work , after some googling I noticed that I should install Guest Addition ( its also an Item in Devices menu ) so I selected Install Guest Additions and It downloaded and asked me whether I want it to mount to my virtual machine and I just selected YUP.

Devices menu

Devices menu

But when I clicked on my cd drive on virtual machine it said that “windows cannot read from this disk the disk might be corrupted or it could be using a format that is not compatible with windows”
I googled more and more and it seemed that I am the only person on earth having this issue
in a thread in Ubuntu Forums one of the post contained the virtual box download link , I thought that I should get a new and clean version of virtual box and install it from scratch so I clicked on that link and suddenly instead of starting Kget firefox opened a page that contained a big forbidden message. Afterward I realized that because my ip address is from Iran and VirtualBox is a Sun product so they forbided me as an iranian to download their package , and more importantly I realized that windows was saying can not read the mounted disc because it was not actually a image of a disc but it was a html page that contained forbidden message coz when I click install guest addition it also try to download it from sun web site , instead of package it just download a forbidden web page.
Eventually I found a alternative link to download it and now it works great

ps : download Guest Addition 2.1.4 from here : http://www.dward.us/software/VBoxGuestAdditions_2.1.4.iso