Virtualbox is an open-source Virtual Machine software that can run on Linux/MAC and Windows Hosts. It supports installing a full range of Windows operating systems (such as Win2000, XP, Vista, and ipvsw 7) on virtual machines) installing the operating system in a virtualbox virtual machine is not complicated. Just like in a real computer, for most new users, the biggest trouble of using virtualbox is the problem of coherence, today, we will solve the problem of file sharing between the virtual XP system and the real host. The latest version of virtualbox is used below.
3.0 for Example
1. Install the enhancement feature virtualbox comes with a reinforcement tool sun virtualbox guest additions, which is the key to achieving a total of virtual machines and real hosts
After starting virtual XP, click the control menu "equipment" → "Install enhancement function". You can see that the installation interface of the program is usually, the user will find that there is no response after clicking "Install enhancement feature". If this happens, if the program installation file is not configured, click the control menu "equipment" → "with optical drive" → "virtual Optical Drive". After Entering the menu, you can find a file named "vboxguestadditions. ISO, double-click the CD image file, and add the virtual optical drive and the ISO image file. Next, open "my computer" in the virtual machine, and then double-click the CD drive, you can install the Enhancement Tool normally.
2. configure the data space. Next, set the folder shared by the host and the virtual machine and click the control menu "equipment" → "configure data space". In the dialog box, add a new data space, when setting the "data space location", you must click the drop-down list and select "Others" to add a data space so that you can find the folder on the host in the folder list, select the folder to be shared and return to the "fixed configuration" check box. Now we can see the shared host folder in the "Data Space" list.
3. now we can access the host folder in the form of "Next person on the Internet", but this operation is troublesome, we use the ing network drive to quickly access the "my computer" in the virtual machine, and then click the menu "tool" → "ing network drive ", after entering, specify the drive letter ing network drive. Then, click the Browse button and find "virtualbox" in the "entire network" tree list.
Shared Folders, access "my computer" again. You can see that the mapped network drive has a list of mapped network drives so that you can quickly access the folders in the host, enable the virtual system built by virtualbox to truly interact with hosts