Linux Host Windows Guest Shared Folders

Metallinut · Post by **Metallinut** » 10. Nov 2007, 19:51

Strange behavior running a Windows XP guest on an Ubuntu 7.10 host. I'm trying to run iTunes on my XP guest to sync with my iPod.

When updating the iPod, I have gkrellm running on the host. While the iPod is updating, I can see sda's activity indicating that the files are being read by the guest machine. Every once in a while however, all sda activity will cease. The XP guest does not freeze, per say... And I can get the iPod update running again, by simply choosing an open "My Computer" window on the taskbar of the guest, and switching back to iTunes. Like, magic, sda's activity is back up.

As a result, during this inital iPod sync (just migrated iTunes from a physical machine to my VB guest), I have to constantly check in, to make sure sda is not frozen...if so, just do my application switch to get it going again....

From reading online here, it seems this is an issue with shared folders in VirtualBox.

Please please please take a look at shared folders, and see if we can get this fixed!

One more piece of info, the host machine is a dual-core CPU. I'm not totally sure, but I think the shared folder problem can sometimes crop up as a result of VirtualBox switching which CPU it uses (when running the iTunes sync - and nothing else on the host, I can see most utilization coming on one CPU...all of a sudden it'll switch to the 2nd CPU. This is when the shared folder seems to freeze).

Thanks!

Post by **sandervl** » 11. Nov 2007, 16:40

That problem has already been fixed. See http://www.virtualbox.org/ticket/763

Metallinut · Post by **Metallinut** » 13. Nov 2007, 22:05

sandervl wrote:That problem has already been fixed. See http://www.virtualbox.org/ticket/763

OK, I don't want to sound like an idiot, but I will anyway...

I uninstalled the released version (via synaptic), and followed the procedures to install from the svn checkout [http://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Linux%20 ... structions]. When I run

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LD_LIBRARY_PATH=. ./VirtualBox

it comes up properly. When I try to run my virtual machine, however, I get an error that says:
"Failed to create a new session."
Callee RC: 0x80040154

Is there a way to cleanly get the newer SVN version to run, say from a .deb file or something?

I also liked how I could just click on the Innotek icon to run it. Now I've got to run
LD_LIBRARY_PATH=. ./VBoxSVC&
LD_LIBRARY_PATH=. ./VirtualBox
just to get it to run...

Thanks