Shared Folders and Windows 7

Kileykb · Post by **Kileykb** » 15. Jan 2009, 20:49

Sorry again.

Where is Windows 7 Beta installed on my Vista computer? The only place I see it is in a subfolder of .virtualbox

Post by **petrossa** » 15. Jan 2009, 21:36

Kileykb wrote:Sorry again.

Where is Windows 7 Beta installed on my Vista computer? The only place I see it is in a subfolder of .virtualbox

that's very far OT for this forum

Kileykb · Post by **Kileykb** » 15. Jan 2009, 22:39

petrossa wrote:
Kileykb wrote:Sorry again.

Where is Windows 7 Beta installed on my Vista computer? The only place I see it is in a subfolder of .virtualbox
that's very far OT for this forum

I think I must just have asked the question wrong? I wanted to know where Windows 7 Beta was in order to paste the copied .virtualbox file you told me to copy and paste in order to share files. I can't figure out where I'm supposed to put the file and I thought you said it was supposed to go in the drive where windows 7 beta is. I don't where that is.

Post by **Sasquatch** » 15. Jan 2009, 22:43

The paste they are talking about is from VM to VM. So you have to boot the VM and paste it in there. You can use a normal network share, or USB drive to transfer it.

Kileykb · Post by **Kileykb** » 15. Jan 2009, 23:09

Sasquatch wrote:The paste they are talking about is from VM to VM. So you have to boot the VM and paste it in there. You can use a normal network share, or USB drive to transfer it.

In other words: I need a virtual machine that loads vista, and has a .virtualbox folder that has a successful share created on it in order to copy that file into my Windows Beta 7 virtual machine that won't let me create the correct files.

Also, I don't know how to create a network share between my computer and virtual machine.

rayo · Post by **rayo** » 16. Jan 2009, 02:29

petrossa wrote:
Given you have the same drive letters for both vista and windows 7 if you copy all, vbox will work the same in both installations.

How about an XP host and Windows 7 guest?

I have used the shared folders option but find that it does not behave similar to XP, XP situation. When I go into Computer I see the CD drive with the shared folder name. When I click on it, it asks me to insert a CD. I presume that the drive refers to the DVD computer drive.

areicb · Post by **areicb** » 16. Jan 2009, 08:56

TEMP SOLUTION FOR SHARING FILES WITH WINDOWS7 MACHINE

I have an easy solution. Make a second hard drive and mount it with ALL machines as a slave.
Mount the shared folder in XP or Vista and transfer files from Shared Folder to second hard drive
Now fire up Windows7 and the files are usable from the second drive.

It takes a little more time, but I can easly run several VM's at once

I have not tried the USB option, but you may be able to use that as a shared folder as well

Post by **petrossa** » 16. Jan 2009, 10:10

Sasquatch wrote:The paste they are talking about is from VM to VM. So you have to boot the VM and paste it in there. You can use a normal network share, or USB drive to transfer it.

No that's a misunderstanding.....

I am talking about transfering the VDI created in vista to windows 7.

Obviously you can also add in the VDI from windows 7 by pointing the VDImanager to your vista setup

Maybe i complicated the issue by wanting to have seperate setups for both systems.

So once more but now as simple as it gets:

Boot to HOST vista, create VDI with your preferred quest. Install questadditions. IMPERATIVE: add 1 (one) shared folder. Doesnt matter what. Do a normal shutdown of your guest.

Boot to HOST windows 7. Create a machine and use the VDI created in vista HOST. Boot VM, your shared folders work

rayo · Post by **rayo** » 16. Jan 2009, 23:53

areicb wrote:TEMP SOLUTION FOR SHARING FILES WITH WINDOWS7 MACHINE

I have an easy solution. Make a second hard drive

Would you mind explaining this second hard drive as I am not sure what you are referring to.

and mount it with ALL machines as a slave.
Mount the shared folder in XP

I can understand that bit, in fact I already have a shared drive in the XP, XP situation.

and transfer files from Shared Folder to second hard drive

I'll give that a go when I have learnt what the second hard drive is.

I have not tried the USB option, but you may be able to use that as a shared folder as well

I'll give that a go also.

joelbon · Post by **joelbon** » 31. Jan 2009, 02:57

I am running Vista Ultimate (host) and two guests (XP pro and Windows 7). I can get shared folders to work perfectly in the xp guest using the net command, but when I open the Windows 7 guest and run the net command I get
"System error 67 has occurred. The network name cannot be found."

I see a couple of other posts on this subject but no one has seemed to addressed this situation yet.

jrfsm · Post by **jrfsm** » 1. Feb 2009, 15:06

Having kicked of this thread I think I can now close it as I have succeeded in getting shared folders to work in Windows 7 VM.

To do this I;
1. upgraded to version 2.1.2 of virtualbox. I was on 1.5.6.
2. In windows 7 unistalled the old Guest additions via the Control Panel
3. Instaled the new Guest Additions
4. Ran the net use command

Then hey presto it appears

Post by **Sasquatch** » 1. Feb 2009, 15:30

Would you change the version of VB to the proper one. 2.1.1 was never released, it's never an odd number when it's released. It's either 2.1.0 or 2.1.2.

JB · Post by JB » 1. Feb 2009, 22:17

I did some testing based on the approach of creating a Vista vm, mapping a shared folder, then opening a Win7 vdi in that Vista vm. This seems to work pretty reliably. I have also found that if you just create a new Vista VM and use the Win7 vdi, it works just as well without the need to map any shared folders. This lets you get things working without having to actually install Vista in the vm you will use your Windows 7 vdi in.

joelbon · Post by **joelbon** » 2. Feb 2009, 06:57

If you make sure that your Guest Additions is the right version the net use command works perfectly!! Check it in the add/remove programs in the Control Panel and if it isn't the current version, uninstall it and reinstall it and your problems go away!!

Thanks to all who helped in figuring this out. It is really appreciated!!

Post by **petrossa** » 2. Feb 2009, 12:04

JB wrote: I have also found that if you just create a new Vista VM and use the Win7 vdi, it works just as well without the need to map any shared folders. This lets you get things working without having to actually install Vista in the vm you will use your Windows 7 vdi in.

please explain further, you create vista vm in vista or in win7?

virtualbox.org

Shared Folders and Windows 7

System error 67

Shared Folders and Windows 7

It works great!!