[Cialug] tips for sharing files inside a VM

[David Champion]

I'm confused as to why you need a symlink?

Host: create a share, i.e. /share, share it with nfs or samba or whatever...

VM: mount the share in /mnt/share, or /home/matthew/share or
/var/www/mysite.

-dc

On Thu, Mar 10, 2011 at 11:35 AM, Matthew Nuzum <newz at bearfruit.org> wrote:

> On Thu, Mar 10, 2011 at 11:33 AM, L. V. Lammert <lvl at omnitec.net> wrote:
>
>> At 11:26 AM 3/10/2011, you wrote:
>>
>>  Sharing the folder with the virtual machine, mounting it in the machine
>>> as a remote filesystem and then trying to create a symlink from the mounted
>>> file system. However, virtual box does not support creating symlinks. :-(
>>>
>>> The obvious solution that works is to use version control or sftp. I'm
>>> trying to think of something that just works so that I just hit save and
>>> then refresh.
>>>
>>
>> sftp would be the simplest approach.
>>
>>
> I wonder if there's a way to make it happen automatically when a file
> changes.
>
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