Read the Forum Posting Guide before opening a topic. Online User Manual : A must read if you want to know what we're talking about. Try searching the forums first with Google and add the site filter for this forum. Re: Windows 7 Host, Windows XP Guest Shared Folder by iamgregor » Mon Nov 30, am Changing the name didn't do anything and sadly, the instructions provided for modifying the permissions didn't match the screens I could see.
Once I got to advanced permissions, there was no "FIND" button of any kind in any of the available tabs. Now, you do have the Guest Additions installed properly, right? The process can last several minutes since it will format the hard drive and configure. Once it's finished the system will reboot from hard disk. You can unmount the ISO since you won't need for the moment.
Your Windows XP guest operating system is now ready to work. But before, it's better you configure guest additions that will enable useful feature, in particular, shared folders useful to move files from host to guest and viceversa and video enhancement.
Just restart the guest, and press F8 right before OS boot. It will give you the menu and you will choose, 'Start in Safe mode' no matter if you select with or without network.
Let the system to install and just reboot in normal mode. At reboot, you'll get the possibility to use new features, like video resizing or shared folders. The folder will be represented in the guest as a remote drive. Don't remove or you'll need to mount it again from scratch.
If you already have a game available in your game shared folder, just search for it from the guest, run it and enjoy! Otherwise, download it from squakenet search from your host or your guest, unzip and run it! The configuration setting above should be enough to run majority of games. But, there could be some game requiring 3D acceleration. In order to enable it you will need to install a recent version of DirectX.
To check the installed version, you can run a program dxdiag that will allow you to check the status of your directX. By default you will see 3D acceleration is disabled. Sign up to join this community. The best answers are voted up and rise to the top. Stack Overflow for Teams — Collaborate and share knowledge with a private group. Create a free Team What is Teams? Learn more. How do I set up shared folders in a Windows Virtualbox guest? Ask Question. Asked 10 years, 6 months ago.
Active 3 months ago. Viewed k times. How can I do that? Improve this question. Takkat k 50 50 gold badges silver badges bronze badges. Add a comment. Active Oldest Votes. However in Windows you don't "mount" it but instead you take the following steps from the user manual of Virtual Box : In a Windows guest, shared folders are browseable and therefore visible in Windows Explorer.
Improve this answer. Community Bot 1. Takkat Takkat k 50 50 gold badges silver badges bronze badges. I don't think these instructions are for XP though.
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