mapping host drive for guest localhost

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sjh7225
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Joined: 27. Jul 2010, 18:28
Primary OS: Mac OS X other
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Guest OSses: Windows 7

mapping host drive for guest localhost

Post by sjh7225 »

Hi All,

Ive been working on this all day and have not had any success, so i hope you can help me.

I have configured Windows 7 as my guest OS on my Mac running Snow Leopard. What I am looking to do is to test websites in IE8 via WAMP on the guest OS, but the files are located on my host machine. I have succesfully mapped the drive to the guest OS and can view the files in windows explorer, but I cannot get WAMP to acknowledge the alias for the files on my host machine.

If anyone can help, I would be very grateful.

Thanks in advance
stefan.becker
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Re: mapping host drive for guest localhost

Post by stefan.becker »

Help yourself first.

Tell exact the way how you mapped the host drive to the guest.
sjh7225
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Joined: 27. Jul 2010, 18:28
Primary OS: Mac OS X other
VBox Version: OSE other
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Re: mapping host drive for guest localhost

Post by sjh7225 »

In the VirtualBox config I have set up the folder location as a Shared Folder, then in Win7 I have mapped it to a drive letter. When I try to create the alias in WAMP it says the drive does not exist although I can view the contents in Win Explorer.
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