Active 8 years, 4 months ago. Viewed 45k times. Improve this question. Appu Appu 66 1 1 gold badge 1 1 silver badge 9 9 bronze badges. You didn't need to use Windows for 7zip to begin with. Install p7zip-full in Ubuntu, and unzip as any other zip archive. Were you able to get a solution for Windows XP guest? The solutions on this page are for windows 7, the interface is just different enough on Windows XP that I'm not getting any luck.
The original question specified Windows XP. Add a comment. Active Oldest Votes. You can do either of the following: Create a folder on your Ubuntu host let's say "Shared" Right click the folder name "Shared" and click the Share menu. Improve this answer. Arnold Arnold 2 2 silver badges 6 6 bronze badges. After few hours trying different suggestions and lots of search, this answer saved my life. Define a directory on the host to share right click menu: Sharing Options On first time we try to define a share we will be prompted to install the Samba network sharing applications.
Do so and reboot to take effect. In the Windows guest open Places to select Network : Choose your host server name here e. Takkat Takkat k 50 50 gold badges silver badges bronze badges.
This worked great -- so awesome! Each of these methods is ideally suited for a specific type of data and expected use. For example, copy and paste is best for sharing text and small files, such as copying code from a browser on your host PC into a terminal session in the guest OS.
Below, we'll look at sharing data using these three methods on virtual machines running on Oracle VirtualBox and VMware Workstation Player. Related: What Is a Virtual Machine? Everything You Need to Know. There's also the default option, Disabled.
Select Bidirectional in both drop-down boxes to enable two-way file sharing. Similar to the VirtualBox functionality, you can also set up a shared clipboard or enable drag and drop in VMware.
But you might need first to install the VMware Tools package, which brings additional features. Sharing data between the guest and host operating systems in this way is best suited for smaller files.
You might also share text strings, URLs, that sort of thing. Steer clear of large files, though—you have other options for those. Using a USB stick to transfer data between two physical machines is a time-honored tradition.
For this, you need to download the VirtualBox Extension Pack. However, it will not be detected by the host PC in this scenario. For this to happen, remove the drive, minimize the VM, then reconnect.
It's simple but can get messy if you forget which operating system the USB stick is connected to. If you hit it again, it again allows you to scale your window. Installing the additional features has not been working right with the menu.
It seems that the menu option assumes that you are running X11 when I generally don't want to install the whole X11 for a tiny super simple server. So this requires you to do the installation manually. In Ubuntu Before running the installation script, you may need to install some kernel tools you'd think that the script can do it, and maybe it does, but that won't hurt much :.
Now you can install the actual additions by running one of the scripts. Which one is mainly determine by the operating system you're running. For Linux:. Create a shared folder or several To do that, use the menu entry "Shared Folders There you should be able to create the shared folders without too much trouble.
That should also work when you tweak the settings of your guest. Once you have these two things, you are ready to mount the partition. The mount instruction changes depending on the guest you are running.
Note that this is specific to the guest, not the other way around. That is, you can mount the host directory on the guest. Got it? If your main computer runs Linux and your guest is Windows, then you add a drive with:.
Note that all those features, installing the the Virtual Box Additions, creating a shared folder, mounting, are availabe via the command line. I just did not try those but if you need to script all of that, it's possible. At least in version
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