Comments on: Share Your Virtualbox VM Across Different OS

By: David

David — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 18:59:09 +0000

It does not work in VirtualBox. If you attach a same vdi file to different VMs, Virtual Box will create differencing images for them automatically. For example, you installed some security patches to your Ubuntu virtual machine on Mac, then you switch to Windows, start Ubuntu in VirtualBox, you will see that it is still not patched. I don’t know why VirtualBox is implemented that way. It makes sharing VM almost impossible. Sure, you can export/import VMs, but it clones a new VM, not sharing the same one. VMWare does better job on sharing.

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By: Damien

Damien — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 02:59:09 +0000

I understand where you are coming from, and I think that is an useful method. Thanks for sharing.

By: Required

Required — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 21:36:22 +0000

Sorry, I left out the important part: that idea is so that you could access your snapshots across Operating Systems.

By: Required

Required — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 21:34:26 +0000

In Linux, I always move my /home/required/.VirtualBox folder to another partition, /giant-partition/VirtualBox, for example. Then do: ln -s /giant-partition/VirtualBox /home/required/.VirtualBox, so that VirtualBox can still get to its files using the expected path.

I think you could possibly do this from each of your host OS systems, to store all VirtualBox information on the single shared partition.

By: elle

elle — Thu, 01 Jan 2009 12:37:11 +0000

no, all the document in mac, i cant find it in my windows…

By: elle

elle — Thu, 01 Jan 2009 12:26:43 +0000

no, all document in mac can’t be open in windows..
i don’t know what folder in window that contain my mac document..

By: Damien

Damien — Sun, 28 Dec 2008 06:46:38 +0000

what do you mean by Mac document? Are you referring to dmg file?

By: elle

elle — Fri, 26 Dec 2008 15:53:06 +0000

hi..
btw i can’t open mac document in windows..
i have installed virtual box…

i have search google for 3 hours with no result..

i dont know how to open mac document in windows using it..

please help me..

i have tried some ways but it didn’t work..

my laptop: mac os x tiger

thanks btw

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By: buz

buz — Sun, 12 Oct 2008 09:56:33 +0000

Thanks for your tutorial, it’s working great.

Nevertheless, I’m experiencing problems with snapshots shares. My hosts OS are Linux/WinXP. Snapshots are not taken in account in the other OS, ie :
- I’m on host XP, I take snapshot of the guest,
- I reboot
- I dual boot on Linux
- VirtualBox does not seem to see the snapshot, and continue to use the “base” revision.

It may be possible to copy a Virtual Box image with some manager ; but snapshot sharing management between hosts are not functional today.