Share desktop?

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neto333
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Share desktop?

Post by neto333 »

Hi, i really like virtualbox in my mac, but there is something that i wanna do, is share the same desktop, i know that i can share a folder, but i want to share the whole desktop like parallels desktop, is there a way¿
Perryg
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Re: Share desktop?

Post by Perryg »

Moved to OS X Hosts

If the guest supports guest additions you need them installed and then I believe you are wanting seamless, (Host+L toggles this)
neto333
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Re: Share desktop?

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Perryg wrote:Moved to OS X Hosts

If the guest supports guest additions you need them installed and then I believe you are wanting seamless, (Host+L toggles this)
thank you very much, but how can make interact each other, between my mac and my pc, for example i tried to save an image in the desktop, but it saved in the windows desktop, no in the mac desktop.
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Re: Share desktop?

Post by loukingjr »

neto333 wrote:
Perryg wrote:Moved to OS X Hosts

If the guest supports guest additions you need them installed and then I believe you are wanting seamless, (Host+L toggles this)
thank you very much, but how can make interact each other, between my mac and my pc, for example i tried to save an image in the desktop, but it saved in the windows desktop, no in the mac desktop.
create a shared folder that points to the mac desktop.
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