Hi Gary,<div><br></div><div>Thanks, I made progress. Now I am getting<br><div><br></div><div>I am getting "mount: unknown filesystem type 'vboxsf'" any thoughts?</div><div><br></div><div><a href="http://screencast.com/t/oT7bZaKPpm0">http://screencast.com/t/oT7bZaKPpm0</a><br>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Oct 4, 2009 at 6:58 PM, Gary C Martin <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:gary@garycmartin.com">gary@garycmartin.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
Hi Caroline,<div class="im"><br>
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On 4 Oct 2009, at 23:42, Caroline Meeks wrote:<br>
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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?<br>
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Sure. FWIW it's all in the VirtualBox help pdf (just go to the Help menu, and the Contents...) The quick route is:<br>
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1) Make sure you're not running or saved the sugar VM (can't change settings unless it's off)<br>
2) Select your Sugar VM and open Settings<br>
3) Select Shared Folders<br>
4) Hit the + folder icon, choose a folder path (the pop-up has a standard Mac dialogue if you click Other...)<br>
5) Give it a name, say shared_with_sugar (I don't usually tick the read-only as it is useful both ways)<br>
6) You're done with settings, so launch your VM<br>
8) In a VM Terminal window type<br>
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mkdir ~/shared_directory<br>
sudo mount -o uid=500 -t vboxsf shared_with_sugar ~/shared_directory<br>
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9) You'll now see any shared files in here<br>
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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.<br>
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Regards,<br><font color="#888888">
--Gary<br>
</font></blockquote></div><br><br clear="all"><br>-- <br>Caroline Meeks<br>Solution Grove<br>Caroline@SolutionGrove.com<br><br>617-500-3488 - Office<br>505-213-3268 - Fax<br>
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