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dude! your tip on how to share between VirtualBox and Ubuntu just saved me a bunch of time actually reading the manual! Sweet...

gotta love it!! thanks!

Thanks.

Why do I keep getting following error msg after putting the command

VBoxManage sharedfolder add WinXP -name «sharedfolder» -hostpath «/home/vishal/Documents»

VirtualBox Command Line Management Interface Version 1.3.8
(C) 2005-2007 InnoTek Systemberatung GmbH
All rights reserved.

[!] FAILED calling machine->CreateSharedFolder(Bstr(name), Bstr(hostpath)) at line 5533!
[!] Primary RC = 0x80070057
[!] Full error info present: true , basic error info present: true
[!] Result Code = 0x80070057
[!] Text = Shared folder path '«/home/vishal/Documents»' is not absolute
[!] Component = SharedFolder, Interface: ISharedFolder, {8b0c5f70-9139-4f97-a421-64d5e9c335d5}
[!] Callee = IMachine, {fd443ec1-0009-4f5b-9282-d72760a66916}

Could you help me in solving the problem?
Thanks again!!!

Thanks Arun. It worked.

Hey, great tutorials, they helped out alot. But I have a problem with my mouse. I am running Ubuntu 7.04 on a Dell Inspiraon Laptop with a Logitech G5 attached. I chose the option to have the Virtualbox use that usb mouse, but when I do that, i can't use it in Linux. I have tried to install the guest services thing, but nothing happened. If you or anyone can give me a hint I would appreciate it.

Thanks

ok, i read through the comments on your post on how to install virtualbox and found the answer. I have to turn OFF the usb mouse instead of turning it on. I mean through the settings before I start the win xp box. Anyway, it works now and everything is great. Thanks again for the great tutorials.

I have followed your instructions and thank your for them. Everything works great. It has allowed me to share a second partition on my harddrive. Only problem that I am having is that it's not allowing me to write to the drive or change the existing on the drive. Do you know what I can do to fix this issue?

Hi there, I'm having some trouble with sharing as per your instruction. My line was this:

VBoxManage sharedfolder add xp -name <> -hostpath <>

It doesn't report an error, so I load VirtualBox and type:

net use X: \\vboxsvr\shared

It waits a while then tells me:

System error 53 has occured. The network path was not found.

If I put a gibberish directory in it tells me instantly, but the correct one waits a while then denies me. Can you help? Thanks!

Hrm that first line didn't appear as I pasted it for some reason, the name was «shared» and the hostpath was «/320/Shared».

I just tried it that way, and got the same error again.

I changed the drive letters, directories to share, everything, and it still comes up with the same error as above. I've also made sure there was a space between the drive letter and \.

Any ideas?

Hrm not so silly, I haven't installed any addons at all - I figured as it came default with openSUSE 10.3 that it'd have everything I needed.

Would it be «virtualbox-guest-tools-1.5.2-13.3.i586.rpm» or is that something that builds a guest addon? Just confused as to exactly what I need to download.

Thanks for your help btw.

Worked a charm, thanks for your help.

Yes I have installed guest addon - I assume I have done it correctly as the mouse is automatically captured to whatever os I use.

THanx a million for the tip.........
Now I can smile... :-}
About to install OS X Leopard!

hey there, thanks for the tip how ever im getting an error when i try to perform the file sharing. the error that i'm getting is :

[!] FAILED calling machine->CreateSharedFolder(Bstr(name), Bstr(hostpath), fWritable) at line 6236!
[!] Primary RC = 0x80070057
[!] Full error info present: true , basic error info present: true
[!] Result Code = 0x80070057
[!] Text = Shared folder path '«/home/user/Documents»' is not absolute
[!] Component = SharedFolder, Interface: ISharedFolder, {8b0c5f70-9139-4f97-a421-64d5e9c335d5}
[!] Callee = IMachine, {31f7169f-14da-4c55-8cb6-a3665186e35e}

any help on this would be great

oh. thanks, anyway that error occured when i did :

VBoxManage sharedfolder add virtualmachinename -name «sharedfolder» -hostpath «/home/username/foldertoshare»

just to clarify, when i do the shared folder and then load up virtual box and run the windows command prompt, i type in

«net use driveletter: \\vboxsvr\sharedfolder»

and since my «shared folder name» is «Desktop»

my command line should be

«net use d: \\vboxsvr\Desktop» ? am I right ?

http://pastebin.ca/960967

Am i doing it right ?

thanks a lot for the tutorial, i'm new to linux and this virtual box was of utmost importance to me, as i was unable to configure ms office properly in wine

hey Arun. thank you so much . it works now.

Hi,
Thanks to your walkthrough, i was able to have XP as guest inside my Kubuntu Feisty Fawn 7.04. I am migrating from Vista and need to run office., i was able to do that as well.

Only thing troubling me is to get XP to recognize my wireless card. Any tips??

Thanks.

**update
got my wireless working as well. pheww!!!
i had to choose the host interface name which needed to be mapped to the virtual adapter in the settings.

Hi Arun,
I have installed the virtualbox 1.5.6 on ubuntu and installed WinXp sp2 on it but I could never get my mouse working in the virtual box. Can you please guide me?

Thanks,

Ravi

Thanks, Arun. I have got it going after I installed the guest applications.

Thanks a lot Arun, I had a little difficulties but I did it, now my Virutalbox Works at 100 %.

Im having trouble trying to get my wireless card recognized in virtualbox any ideas Arun?