At the moment, on my Windows 10 UEFI (1903) computer, I'm putting together images so that they can be part of a flash card system, that allows images to be posted on the reverse side.

When I install a Virtual Box, would I be able to make the images under the Win10 OS and bring them back to the Linux OS side of the VB?

(I do very minor photo manipulation with a windows program, that does nothave a Linux version available for download. (Faststone Image Viewer I use that, and Microsoft Paint, to accomplish what I need to do.


Thanks in advance,

Pen guin

Yes, there are several ways to exchange data between the host and guest. Install guest additions in the linux VM and you can configure bidirectional drag and drop or shared folders. Shared folders works like a network share between the two operating systems without having to configure samba. With drag and drop you can drag the file from one file browser to another.

share folder prob be fastest.

I saw an example of share folder on YT earlier today.

With every new image I make do I have to go through that entire process every time, or is it a one time setup?

The documentation for VirtualBox also mentioned something about Host key + L which would allow for you to have one window of the host system and one window of the guest system side by side at the same time.

And finally, do I have to enable Virtualization on the Host computer in the UEFI, before installing?

Thanks

... one-time setup. Once you configure Shared Folders, you can use them anytime afterwards, like michaelk mentioned, the same way you would network share.

No, but it would help performance, since your guest system will be able to use some of your hardware's native virtualization capabilities.

Cheers,

It is a one time process and can be automatically configured to automount.

https://www.virtualbox.org/manual/ch...#sharedfolders

Yes, virtualization has to be enabled in the BIOS/UEFI.

Host key + L is called seamless mode and it just changes the way the guest appears on the desktop. It can make the program in focus appear as if it was running on the host.

Hi michaelk,

If this is true, then part of my previous post is incorrect. I seem to remember being able to use hypervisors (Virtualbox, VMWare ...) on a host computer without activating the virtualization extensions of the CPU in firmware (and correspondingly not activating hardware virtualization in the guest acceleration settings)... Performance was not as good, but it worked. Am I hallucinating ?

... If so, more coffee before answering questions next time :-) Please confirm.

Cheers,

I guess I need more caffeine too... The more correct answer is it it depends but should be enabled. Hardware virtualization has to be enabled for 64 bit guests.

https://www.virtualbox.org/manual/ch10.html#hwvirt

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... Cool - thx michaelk. Didn't know about the hard requirement for 64-bit guests. I've never run into a problem because I tend to have that firmware feature enabled on all of my systems.

Cheers - thanks again for the clarification.

For the life of me I can't get a windows program folder to mount.

In the videos I've seen since I was last here, everyone is talking about creating a folder like "vmshare" Is that a mandatory step even if you already have on your system the program (in a folder) that you want to share? (vs. a docx file, for example.) As I understand it LibreOffice can save to that format as well.

At any rate, the folder wouldn't even mount, after a reboot of the VB. I'm fit to be tied.

Would VMware make it any easier (to share files/folders?)

Pen guin

Hi Pen guin,

Did you make sure to install the Virtualbox Extension Pack on the host system (Windows 10, from what I understand of your setup) and the Virtualbox Guest Additions on the guest system (your Linux Virtualbox guest VM) ? The Shared Folders function depends on these.

No, I didn't. Thanks for that.

Well I registered with Linux Mint However, they are saying that I don't have any video drivers, or some such installed, what would you advise. (I find that confusing.)

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Hi Pen guin,

The VBox Guest Additions is usually installed on Mint using the ISO, which usually appears as a CD drive on your Mint desktop ... You seem to be in a driver installation dialog box there ....

Do you see the CD icon on your desktop ? If not, you can specify in the guest's settings that you want to mount the ISO as an optical drive.

I see an Iso on the desktop, but now that I've installed Guest Additions inside of Linux, it - the title of the iso now has "Guest Additions" in the title of the iso. And when I double click on it, it won't start citing some kind of an error. No matter, it's already installed, inside Linux.