Sun VirtualBox

[RabYoung]

Anybody on the forum using this freeware virtualisation software? I've got it up and running on my iMac and it seems stable so far. Guest OS is Windows XP OEM.

 

[osiris315]

I've been testing it as an alternative to Parallels, however I'm having problems with the shared folders facility. It just wont let me activate one (greyed out icon). If I can get this to work properly, then its goodbye Parallels!

 

[Chipskip]

Did you get the shared folders working?

I installed Virtualbox last night and my USB connected just fine. Today I can't get it to connect.

It let me create the shared folder but it wont let me access it.

A guy at work swears by Virtual box running on Linux, figured I would try it before buying one of the others.

 

[mcgowan7]

Virtual box guest additions

You've got to install the guest additions for folder sharing to work properly.

 

[memco]

How's the performance and everything with VB? I think my only use for it is to check compatibility with IE6 for some websites. Right now I use Crossover, which is slow to start up and buggy at times.

 

[Mal]

I'm using it with Mandriva Linux right now, haven't experienced any problems, but I also don't use it often (I was really just playing around with Linux).

jW

 

[MacUser2525]

Did you get the shared folders working?

It let me create the shared folder but it wont let me access it.

Try using similar to the below changing the VBox_Shared shared part to the name of the directory you shared in a DOS command prompt window, once connected then in your My Computer you will see an X: network shared drive you can share the files with.

net use x: \\vboxsvr\VBox_Shared