Hi Thomas, On Tuesday 26 January 2010, Thomas Løcke wrote: > I'm in the process of moving a bunch of desktops to the SUN VDI platform, > and I intend to use VirtualBox as the virtualization backend. > > All of the guests will need to mount 3-4 CIFS shares (served by Linux > powered Samba servers), and that got me thinking: Should I mount the shares > in the guest, as regular Samba shares, or should I mount the shares on the > host, and then make them available to the guests using the Shared Folders > functionality? > > What is considered best practice?
That depends on. Using shared folders to access host data saves some virtualization overhead because a network card should be a bit slower than the shared folders service. However, I'm not aware of such a benchmark. I suggest you to try shared folders. If this does not work, you still can access samba shares over network but use a host-only network device in that case. Kind regards, Frank -- Dr.-Ing. Frank Mehnert Sitz der Gesellschaft: Sun Microsystems GmbH, Sonnenallee 1, 85551 Kirchheim-Heimstetten Amtsgericht München: HRB 161028 Geschäftsführer: Thomas Schröder, Wolfgang Engels Vorsitzender des Aufsichtsrates: Martin Häring
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