[IAEP] Accessing the hard drive of the host machine from a Virtual Box Sugar ?

[Gary C Martin]

Hi Caroline,

On 4 Oct 2009, at 23:42, Caroline Meeks wrote:

> Does anyone know how to bring files from the host's hard drive (I am  
> on a Mac) into a Sugar running in Virtual Box?

Sure. FWIW it's all in the VirtualBox help pdf (just go to the Help  
menu, and the Contents...) The quick route is:

1) Make sure you're not running or saved the sugar VM (can't change  
settings unless it's off)
2) Select your Sugar VM and open Settings
3) Select Shared Folders
4) Hit the + folder icon, choose a folder path (the pop-up has a  
standard Mac dialogue if you click Other...)
5) Give it a name, say shared_with_sugar (I don't usually tick the  
read-only as it is useful both ways)
6) You're done with settings, so launch your VM
8) In a VM Terminal window type

	mkdir ~/shared_directory
	sudo mount -o uid=500 -t vboxsf shared_with_sugar ~/shared_directory

9) You'll now see any shared files in here

Next time you reboot the VM you'll need to just run the above mount  
command again. You can obviously point this set-up anywhere, so you  
could share ~/Desktop from your Mac to the VM somewhere, just depends  
how you work. Personally I just have a Sugar folder with all my Sugar  
related work.

Regards,
--Gary