Hi all,

Wondered if this is possible and what the implications might be of running Vbox this way?

So I have a macbook pro which I have set up a full environment and I use daily with work etc etc.

I would like to set up a small cloud environment at home which will link my MBP to my home Linux Mint server and have all my latest work pushed over to the Linux machine as soon as the laptop hits my home network.

I realise that something like rsync can do the job but I was wondering if the cloud option would work as I would like to use that infrastructure for other things too but at the moment a Vbox file share would be awesome.

What are your thoughts on this and do you think it would be feasible?

Thanks.

I think the term cloud is rather misleading.

In your question I get that you want to use some sort of storage to maintain synchronization of files. Hopefully you synchronize the good to the bad.

What I don't get is the virtual part of the question. A virtual machine is a software copy of a real computer. A client OS can access the host or remote via a few ways. One being some sort of host defined location through guest additions or some sort of network accessed storage.

Tho I don't understand, I'd say 'try it'!!! A web-search of title found this (ready-to-run .ova I think)

http://www.linuxhomenetworking.com may help.