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Thanks.. I am sure it would work great.. but defeats the whole purpose of 'shared folders' feature (which was supposed to be setup-free/problem-free).
I'll give it a shot when I have time.

I found this workaround (http://ubuntuforums.org/showpost.php?p= ... stcount=13), although I am not sure exactly what it does. I used it in addition to mapping my network drives.

Tested on Fedora 11 host with WindowsXP guest on VirtualBox 3.0.6.

Because I do not know how it works, I do not recommend it until someone else can verify that it does not present a security risk.

Hi,

if you are suffered by accessing share folder too slow, maybe you can try that:

1. if your vm is running Windows,
2. if your share folder name is like that : "\\vboxsvr\<share folder>"
3. if you install windows in disk c of your vm
4. please modify c:\windows\system32\drivers\etc\hosts
5. modify the line "127.0.0.1 localhost" to "127.0.0.1 localhost vboxsvr"
6. reboot vm, and you can see there's a lot of improvement.

Original Poster rhynolu

It doesn't pose a security risk. All it does it tell the OS that the network name 'vboxsvr' can be found on the local machine. Without it, it would query the network for the name, before the GA take over and tell it where to find it.

I am not sure if it's worth posting or not but this is still a rather large pain in the neck. I am on 3.0.10 r54216 and it's still very slow to copy to or read from a shared folder. Browsing them is just fine which is great. Anyway - for what it's worth I am on OpenSolaris 2009.06 with an XP Vbox..

I have a few XP machines, and I don't notice any slow down when accessing files on a Shared Folder. I don't have the hosts file adjustment.

I haven't yet got a reproducable sequence of steps, but I have a clue about the slowdown, which can still occur with the latest VBox:

I share the same host folder with a linux (ubuntu lucid x64 tested) guest and a windows (XP64 tested) guest. I had the linux guest suspended and access from windows was unbearably slow; off-the-cuff I estimate a 1000x slowdown. Really! When I shut the linux guest down, the windows guest became fast again.

FWIW-ly y'rs,
Dave

Please use VBoxGuestAddition.ISO from Debian Package Management, Synaptic.

iPAS wrote:Please use VBoxGuestAddition.ISO from Debian Package Management, Synaptic.

NEVER EVER DO THAT IF YOU RUN THE PUEL VERSION. It will cause conflicts. Only install packages from repositories if they come from the same source. In this case, the PUEL doesn't come from the Debian repository.

issueperson wrote:I found this workaround (http://ubuntuforums.org/showpost.php?p= ... stcount=13), although I am not sure exactly what it does. I used it in addition to mapping my network drives.

Tested on Fedora 11 host with WindowsXP guest on VirtualBox 3.0.6.

Because I do not know how it works, I do not recommend it until someone else can verify that it does not present a security risk.

Hi,

if you are suffered by accessing share folder too slow, maybe you can try that:

1. if your vm is running Windows,
2. if your share folder name is like that : "\\vboxsvr\<share folder>"
3. if you install windows in disk c of your vm
4. please modify c:\windows\system32\drivers\etc\hosts
5. modify the line "127.0.0.1 localhost" to "127.0.0.1 localhost vboxsvr"
6. reboot vm, and you can see there's a lot of improvement.

Original Poster rhynolu

Thank you! I was having issues with shared folders opening delay and that solution worked pretty well for me!
Using VirtualBox 4.0.4
Host OS: Windows 7 x64
Guest OS: Windows XP x86

Same issue ... and seems to be saved by this method and mapping the shared drives.