On 07/21/09 14:15, dick hoogendijk wrote:
OK, I've a question about the reliability of shared folders. Host: OpenSolaris-b118 (all FS are ZFS) ; Guest: Windows XP (sp3)
Has 118 fixed the GUI problems of 116-117? Do I need VBox 3.x to support Guest Additions of 118? I'm not upgrading beyond 2.2.4 until network performance problems in 3.x are fixed.
The maual is clear: Shared folders allow you to access files of your host system from within the guest system, much like ordinary shares on Windows networks would -- except that shared folders do not need require networking. Shared folders must physically reside on the host and are then shared with the guest; sharing is accomplished using a special service on the host and a file system driver for the guest, both of which are provided by VirtualBox. But what I'd like to know is how -SAFE- is it to read/write to share folders on the ZFS filesytem from within XP? If it's safe I could share my photo folders to have access from Photoshop in XP. If not I've to copy all to the virtual windows machine.
I'm curious, too. Does the "special service on the host" use regular host file operations (not, e.g., accessing the host FS as a block special device?) If so, it should be immune to gross corruption of the host FS, although it might overwrite individual files by garbling pathnames, etc. How does it deal with different case-sensitivity rules between host and guest? I'd feel more comfortable running an NFS or Samba client/server (either direction) between host and guest. -- gil _______________________________________________ vbox-users mailing list [email protected] http://vbox.innotek.de/mailman/listinfo/vbox-users
