I am trying to get a shared folder between a VM and a guest machine. So far tried virtualbox, I know this should be able to do it however I can't seem to get it to install the additional components, many errors and many days spent trying to resolve them. Tried VMware and QEMU but neither of these allow sharing between a linux host and your native Windows guest. Any others?
VM that can share a linux OS?
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Couldn't you use Dropbox ? Install it on both machines and they should sync as long as connected to the net ?
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I just use vmware workstation
More information is required.
I think more information is needed in general.
The thread title looks like you are trying to share a single linux distro over 2 machines, your OP reads that you just want to create a simple shared folder between a VM Linux and a 'guest' machine. Which is it?
Is the guest machine also on a VM or a physical unit? does this guest machine change or is it just a permanent machine on the network.
My understanding would be that you'd need to run the linux distro in VM, you have to tweak the network settings to get it visible on the network, then create a shared folder with Samba. The other option would be to create a share on the guest machine as Linux should be able to read/map that folder without issues.
I also think you'd be better posting in the Linux subforum.
The thread title looks like you are trying to share a single linux distro over 2 machines, your OP reads that you just want to create a simple shared folder between a VM Linux and a 'guest' machine. Which is it?
Is the guest machine also on a VM or a physical unit? does this guest machine change or is it just a permanent machine on the network.
My understanding would be that you'd need to run the linux distro in VM, you have to tweak the network settings to get it visible on the network, then create a shared folder with Samba. The other option would be to create a share on the guest machine as Linux should be able to read/map that folder without issues.
I also think you'd be better posting in the Linux subforum.
Seems VMware player needs the correct distro, Ubuntu and a couple of others to allow for shared folders, made some progress after installing an Ubuntu distro, now have option within VMware to allow for shared folder(on other distro it was greyed out). Still don't have a shared folder in /mnt/htfs(I think that's right), but will keep working on it. VMware workstation is about £250.
If I connect to my WiFi USB adapter(on the host PC) - right click and connect - then my WiFi is disconnected on my PC. Everything looks good in the VM's Linux OS however. If I try to connect to the internet in the VM's OS it does appear to be trying to connect but just stays at the resolving part.
If it disconnected my host PC's internet then how does it know which WiFi SSID to connect too and the password etc.
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If it disconnected my host PC's internet then how does it know which WiFi SSID to connect too and the password etc.
Here is a pic, 3 in 1.
Use a bridged connection in your VM settings and it will automatically share the wifi adapter you're using on the host PC. Nothing to do - it just works. Assuming your router is dishing out IPs via DHCP then the VM will get an IP address in the same range as the real PC and the two can communicate using normal networking. You'll have to lookup how to use SAMBA in your linux guest like AHarvey mentioned a few posts up.
