On Tue, 26 Apr 2022 at 02:34, jkendzi <jken...@gmail.com> wrote: > > I am trying to setup a shared folder between my VirtualBox/FreeDOS and my > /home/documents folder. > > I am having difficulty with this setup, is there another way to access a > folder on the host or another attached drive to the host?
I have spent a little time and effort on this, too. My sad conclusion is that I don't think you can, directly. VBox will only share folders with its own guest additions in the VM. If there are no GAs, it won't share folders. There are no GAs for DOS. Therefore, you can't share folders with a DOS guest. (I would love to be shown to be wrong.) Therefore, all you could do is to share the folders to your LAN with your host OS, and install an SMB client (such as the MS LAN Manager client, or the IBM DOS network client) into FreeDOS and connect it to the LAN using VBox' bridged networking functionality. Connectix' VirtualPC used to offer DOS guest additions, but it only works on VirtualPC. VPC is freeware now, but only supports up to Win7 (with a hack to run on Win8). I don't think VMware has DOS guest additions. -- Liam Proven ~ Profile: https://about.me/liamproven Email: lpro...@cix.co.uk ~ gMail/gTalk/FB: lpro...@gmail.com Twitter/LinkedIn: lproven ~ Skype: liamproven UK: (+44) 7939-087884 ~ Czech [+ WhatsApp/Telegram/Signal]: (+420) 702-829-053 _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
