File Sharing between Guest Systems
File Sharing between Guest Systems
I have two virtual (linux guest) systems. One CentOS 7 and one Linux Mint 18.1. I was wondering how do I create files and folders and share them between each other with read and write permissions? I got the virtual machines to ping each other, but I don't know what to do after that.
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socratis
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Re: File Sharing between Guest Systems
Either the old, solid, traditional way of networking them and sharing network resources. Just treat them like autonomous networked computers and Google for it.
Or you could try a limited file sharing built-in to VirtualBox, shared folders. See Ch. 4.3. Shared folders for more information.
Or you could try a limited file sharing built-in to VirtualBox, shared folders. See Ch. 4.3. Shared folders for more information.
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Re: File Sharing between Guest Systems
It looks like that only shows how to share it my host machine. I'm trying to just share files between my two VM only.
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Martin
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Re: File Sharing between Guest Systems
Then the first line of socratis reply is the solution for you. 
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socratis
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Re: File Sharing between Guest Systems
The second part (shared folders) was to use the host as an intermediary.
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