So far so good. I can boot my virtual machine (it's a bit slow, but it does boot into Windows and it can use my internet connection). Now, I am struggling with the challenge of getting any files into the brand new Windows "guest" OS. I carefully read the procedure for setting up a shared folder here (forum won't let me post link, but topic ident is 25198)
I followed these instructions carefully. (I have added annotation to identify 2 steps referred to further on):
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Close the guest (shutdown)
Open the VirtualBox program and click once on the guest.
Click settings and then click on shared folders.
Click the folder with the green + to add a new share
Click the down arrow on the folder path then click the Folder that says other.
This brings up a browse window. (1) Browse to the folder that you want to share and click OK.
This will put the full path in your folder path line
Click on the box just below that and (2) type [i]shared[/i] then press enter.
At this point you have created the shared folder.
Now open (start) the guest.
Click the program start button and then open a command window or click in the run box and type cmd and press enter.
Put this in the command window: [b]net use x: \\vboxsvr\shared -p[/b] and press enter
After this the share will show in the file manager as a mapped drive.
I'm still a little puzzled by the relationship of "full path" and folder name, above. If I select the folder /Users/myname/vbshare in step 1, then I type in "shared" as directed in step 2, is the real path then /Users/myname/vbshare/shared? and /Users/myname/vbshare equivalent to \\vboxsvr ? This is what I would expect from the instructions I was reading. But I can't get the VM to see the shared folder. This is, well... pretty essential to getting any use out of the VM so I'm stuck here, unable to import any .exe files to try out my virtual Windows machine.
I'm fairly sure this is just a n00b conceptual error. Other people have got this to work, so I must be misunderstanding something. Can someone unconfuse me please?