exchange documents betwenn mac os X and guest

[elodouwen@gmail.com]

hi everybody

i have installed virtualbox in order to use a linux application (texmacs)
i need to be able to exchange documents between host and guest
i need to be able to do this very easyly

i have never found any means to do this with virtualbox

has anyone any help for me ?
thanks

[stefan.becker]

Thant cannot be, that you have not found any thing.

Read the User Manual.

And look in the Tutorial area, howto install Guest Additions on a Linux Guest and setup shared folders.

[elodouwen@gmail.com]

hi thank you
i just spent 20 minutes before going to work
i understood that have to install VBoxGuestAdditions.iso
but i can not manage to find this file on internet
i have found a forum post on google where this question is also asked, without any answer...
i am not used to linux...
i can not search any longer for today
maybe i find it tomorrow ?
Vincent

[ChipMcK]

with the vm running, on the menu bar Devices --> Install Guest Additions

[sigh]

[elodouwen@gmail.com]

hi thanck you
when i do this there appears a "cd" vboxadditions_3 on the ubuntu desktop
it this, i launch some .exe apps (nothing else occurs on the cd) and it doesnot work...
at no moment i encounter a choice for "which addition i want to install"

here the error message :

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Archive: /media/cdrom0/VBoxWindowsAdditions-x86.exe
[/media/cdrom0/VBoxWindowsAdditions-x86.exe]
End-of-central-directory signature not found. Either this file is not
a zipfile, or it constitutes one disk of a multi-part archive. In the
latter case the central directory and zipfile comment will be found on
the last disk(s) of this archive.
note: /media/cdrom0/VBoxWindowsAdditions-x86.exe may be a plain
executable, not an archive
zipinfo: cannot find zipfile directory in one
of /media/cdrom0/VBoxWindowsAdditions-x86.exe or
/media/cdrom0/VBoxWindowsAdditions-x86.exe.zip, and cannot
find /media/cdrom0/VBoxWindowsAdditions-x86.exe.ZIP, period.

[ChipMcK]

Windows <-- .exe
*nix <-- .sh

go check out Howtos and Tutorials forum http://forums.virtualbox.org/viewforum.php?f=23 - you are not the first to be here and you wont be the last

[sigh]

Note that OSE does not support USB connections, but PUEL does

[elodouwen@gmail.com]

hi
i was here
http://forums.virtualbox.org/viewtopic.php?f=29&t=15868
my host is mac os X my guest is ubuntu 10
the shared folder is on my mac hard drive with no spaces (just _) in the path
there's a folder "Mac" on the desktop of Ubuntu that i would like to put in relation with the mac os X shared folder.
i typed
sudo mount -t vboxsf Mac ~/host /home/mynameonubuntu/bureau
"bureau" is the french word for desktop
to get this adress /home/mynameonubuntu/bureau,
i just slided the bureau folder of ubuntu in the window of the terminal
now... what shall i do ??
i find all these operations very complicated
i thank you for the help
Vnz