Hi Gary, Thanks, I made progress. Now I am getting I am getting "mount: unknown filesystem type 'vboxsf'" any thoughts?
http://screencast.com/t/oT7bZaKPpm0 On Sun, Oct 4, 2009 at 6:58 PM, Gary C Martin <g...@garycmartin.com> wrote: > 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 > -- Caroline Meeks Solution Grove carol...@solutiongrove.com 617-500-3488 - Office 505-213-3268 - Fax
_______________________________________________ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep