MacOS LION HOST, Win7 Guest, Crash on Shared Folders

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soundbubble
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MacOS LION HOST, Win7 Guest, Crash on Shared Folders

Post by soundbubble »

I have MacOS LION as host, and guest OS is Windows 7. When I enable SHARED FOLDERS (Share the MacOS Folders into the Guest OS Windows 7), VB crashes after a while when starting to browse the shared folders and can only be restarted after turning SHARED FOLDERS OFF.

How can that be solved?

Thanx.
hank
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Joined: 9. Jan 2011, 17:31
Primary OS: Mac OS X other
VBox Version: OSE other
Guest OSses: Windows 7, XP

Re: MacOS LION HOST, Win7 Guest, Crash on Shared Folders

Post by hank »

Have you tried creating a single folder -- say alongside your VM folders -- and designating only that one to be shared?
My impression was that's how this is meant to work -- not sharing the entire Mac folder tree; that's what works for me.
Several different VMs all look to the same shared folder; anything I want them to have off the Mac I can drop in there.

Warning, I'm an utter beginner at this and have problems of my own I'm clueless about. Just sayin' -- good luck.
mpack
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Primary OS: MS Windows 10
VBox Version: VirtualBox+Oracle ExtPack
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Re: MacOS LION HOST, Win7 Guest, Crash on Shared Folders

Post by mpack »

hank wrote:Warning, I'm an utter beginner at this and have problems of my own I'm clueless about. Just sayin' -- good luck.
Regardless, your advice is good.
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