Re: Further experiments with XP/Vbox/8.1

[Paul Lagasse pglagasse@xxxxxxxx]

Have you installed Guest Additions? On my XP setup, in Linux, they have
to be installed to find shared folders.

Paul Lagasse

On 12/20/2013 02:40 AM, Bill Troop wrote:
> I still have my problem that my primary set up, which otherwise seems
> to work stably and fluidly, will not allow XyWrite to display a
> directory on the host drive, though it will allow me to CALL files
> from that drive provided I know their names.
> So I thought I would install a fresh VM, installing XP from scratch
> rather than using a pre-canned VM image. My problem now is that XP
> will not allow me to map the host drive. Normally I would ask it to
> connect to
>
> \\vboxsvr\[share name specified in Vbox settings]
> but this newly installed, plain vanilla instance of XP simply won't
> 'find' the VBOX host network.
>
> What am I doing wrong?
> I must say it is all a great deal more trouble than running XP mode on
> Win 7-64. That's a cinch by comparison.
> But since many of us will soon be compelled to use Win 8.1 (or,
> hopefully, some much-improved successor) I do believe these problems
> have to be solved.