Hi,
I'm running Windows XP Home as my host, with an NTFS file system. I have shared a single folder.
My guest is Debian with Linux 2.6.
Installation of the guest additions seemed to run without any problems and I have successfully mounted my shared folder.
The problem I encountered was when using the guest to copy files into the mounted share. When doing so, they appear to be a few orders of magnitude larger than they should be, regardless of whether they are viewed from the guest or the host. For example, copying a single JPG file of a few hundred kilobytes, resulted in a file on the host file system of about 3.3 gigabytes!
No actual errors occured, in that both the guest and host ran normally. The guest was able to open the file and it was visible as a 3.3 gigabyte file to both the host and guest.
Presumably something isn't quite right here. The kernel is an out-of-the-box Debain 2.4.18-6-686 kernel and this was compiled with gcc 4.1.2. Note that the same version of gcc was installed to allow the installation of the guest additions.
Any help would be much appreciated.
Thanks,
Justin
Copying files to shared folder seems to create massive files
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Hi.
Same problem here since I upgraded from 1.5.4 to 1.5.6
I run VirtualBox under WindowsVista32bits. My virtual machine is a Redhat9.
I didn"t recompile Vguest additions with the new VirtualBox1.5.6. It seems when i read previous message that it didn"t come from VguestAdditions (i suppose justinhayes installed 1.5.6 and he says that he compile/install vguest).
I go back to 1.5.4 temporary. Let me know if i can help with some testing here.
Same problem here since I upgraded from 1.5.4 to 1.5.6
I run VirtualBox under WindowsVista32bits. My virtual machine is a Redhat9.
I didn"t recompile Vguest additions with the new VirtualBox1.5.6. It seems when i read previous message that it didn"t come from VguestAdditions (i suppose justinhayes installed 1.5.6 and he says that he compile/install vguest).
I go back to 1.5.4 temporary. Let me know if i can help with some testing here.
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