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Transfer Between Mac OSX Host With Windows XP Guest

In VirtualBoxPosted on January 28, 2008. Filed under: Hardware, OSX, Servers, Software | Tags: OSX, Shared, VirtualBox, XP |

Until the latest version of VirtualBox (1.4.1) released for Mac, there are still no

support for the Host Interface networking option enabled yet. Moreover, you even

could not see the NIC card got working on Mac OSX running in some Intel Machine

(Jas 10.4.8) since it didn’t recognized properly with the built-in driver. So, is there

anyway to get a simple networking between both OS? Sure it does.

FYI, file transfer in a Shared Folders option allow you to access files of your Mac OSX

system from within the Windows XP guest system, much like ordinary shares on

Windows networks would – except that shared folders do not need a networking

setup. Sharing is accomplished using a special service on the host and a file systemdriver for the guest, both of which are – fortunately – provided by VirtualBox. In order to use this feature, the

VirtualBox Guest Additions have to be installed in guest OS. Currently, shared Folders are limited to Windows

XP, Windows 2000 and Linux 2.4 and 2.6 guests. To share a folder with a virtual machine in VirtualBox, you

must specify the path of the folder to be shared on the host and chose a “share name” that the guest can use to

access it.

Then, you can mount the shared folder from inside a VM the same way as you would mount an ordinary

network share.

In Windows XP guest, use the following formula command:

net use x: \\vboxsvr\sharename

While vboxsvr is a fixed name, replace “x:“ with the drive letter that you want to use for the share, and

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sharename with the share name specified before.

To simplify this, I used to create a batch file which can executed manually to mount all of the 4 shared folder

name (1 NTFS partition for Windows XP, 2 FAT32 partition for data & 1 HFS Mac OSX partition) specified

before after the guest OS shows up. For example, named it with vboxsvr.bat and the picture below is the

values:

You can also create a link for the batch file & move it to on a someplace you like for example in a quick launch

panel.

To test the script, simply click the shortcut file until it processed completely. If it succeeded, the script will

create new networking drives available assigned next to the drive letter defined before on the batch file.

However, I still don’t understand why it marked with Disconnected Network Drive label although files &

folders on both OS is accessible as you may seen on ordinary full permission shared drives.

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[...] Vash the Stampede wrote an interesting post today onHere’s a quick excerptUntil

the latest version of VirtualBox (1.4.1) released for Mac, there are still no support for

the Host Interface networking option enabled yet. Moreover, you even could not see

the NIC card got working on Mac OSX running in some Intel Machine (Jas 10.4.8)

since it didn’t recognized properly with the built-in driver. So, is there anyway to get

a simple networking between both OS? Sure it does. FYI, file transfer in a Shared

Folders option allow you to access files of your Mac OSX system from within the

Windows XP guest system, much like ordinary shares on Windows networks would –

except that shared folders do not need a networking setup. Sharing is accomplished

using a special service on the host and a file system driver for the guest, both of

which are – fortunately – provided by VirtualBox. In order to use this feature, the

VirtualBox Guest Additions have […] [...]

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January 28, 2008

You make my day! Freeman

February 26, 2008

Shared folders doesn’t work for me.

I use a Max OSX 10.5.2 host and Windows XP guest OS (and VBox Guest Additions).

The net use command simply returns an error 53: The network path was not found

(yes I have doublechecked names).

Do I need to have some particular protocol or service installed for my LAN

connection?

Truck3r

April 16, 2008

Thanks!

It is working!

Now I can share my documents with Mac OS 10.5 and guest XP (under vbox)

jafar ahmed shahin

November 2, 2008

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* I have quest additions installed.

* I have a shared folder called Shared.

To configure the above on the Guest OS:

(From the VirtualBox menu)

Devices > Shared Folders

Devices > Install Guest Additions

On the Guest OS (I am running XP)

My Computer

Tools > Map Network Drive

Drive: (I chose) x:

Folder: \\VBOXSVR\Shared

By doing this I was able to create a Shared connection between Mac OSX host and XP

Guest OS.

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October 22, 2009

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