Hi All! I've posted this before when I was still running 1.6.0. Lately I upgraded to 1.6.2 and reinstalled the guest additions to make sure everything is up to date.
I am using an OpenSolaris host, build 86, on an MSI laptop with Intel Core Duo, plenty of RAM, a fast hard disk drive and Intel 945 graphics chipset. My guest is WindowsXP SP3, 768 MB RAM, 64 MB VideoRAM, a 7 GB virtual drive, ACPI enabled, IO APIC / VT-x / AMD-V / PAE/NX all disabled, PCnet-Fast III via NAT enabled, and one shared folder, within my home directory with read-write permissions for all. Inside the guest, I can connect the shared folder as a network drive. However: - all files in there are listed with 0 kb size, both in normal Explorer view as well as in the properties dialogue of Windows - as of VBOX 1.6.0 I was still able to start installers and the like from there, and they would run, as of 1.6.2 that is not possible, I receive the following message: "Windows cannot access the specified device, path or file. You may not have the appropriate permissions to access them." - When I try to copy them to the local virtual drive, I am told "Cannot copy file: Cannot read from source disk." (in VBOX 1.6.0 I was still able to copy but the resulting files were always 0 kb in size). - I CAN create new files via the right-click dialogue, contrary to files I put in from the "UNIX side" I can open these, too, and for example write in a text file. This does not however work for more involved file types like Corel graphics etc. I CANNOT delete them afterwards. Again, I am told "Cannot read from source disk." So, in summary, shared folders are completely unusable at the moment on an OpenSolaris host with WinXP SP3 guest. At least for me. This is completely reproducible and I'd love to hear if anyone can suggest a fix. Without the possibility to use shared folders, productivity becomes pretty low as I have to divert everything via network servers to get a local file into the local virtual machine. The install of WinXP is pretty minimal and the following programs are installed: 7-zip, Adobe Flash Player, Adobe Reader, Adobe Shockwave Player, CCleaner, CorelDraw X3, Irfanview, JavaRE, Office 2003, Firefox, NOD32, O&O Defrag, Revo Uninstaller, Spybot, SuperCopier 2, xVM Guest Additions, and some Windows updates. I look forward to hearing from anyone who might be able to shed light on this problem. I've disabled all programmes that may hinder disk access such as SuperCopier, NOD, etc. but the situation doesn't change. Thanks for reading, Hakim -- S. Hakim Hamdani [ML] / Eroteme.org _______________________________________________ vbox-users mailing list [email protected] http://vbox.innotek.de/mailman/listinfo/vbox-users
