Sharing Files between VM and Host using Virtual PC 2007

Question

I know that I can share files using Shared Folders in Virtual PC, but this method seems to have pretty poor performance. Is there another method to share files that provides better performance? (Besides using something other than Virtual PC)

Note: I guess this isn't directly programming related, but as a developer who spends all day in virtual machines it seemed related enough. I guess Kev must not use virtual machines when he does development...

Answer 1

The best way to do it is probably set up proper bridge network connection between host machine and VM.

Answer 2

Using VirtualBox, I had problems setting up shared folders (I tried setting it up, and it wasn't working intuitively right away, so I got fed up with it). Thus, I just ftp'ed to the host OS (which I already had set up since I was on Linux), and transfered the file that way.

I would suggest timing transferring a reasonably sized file via shared folders, and then time it again using FTP... if it's faster, that's your solution :-)

Sorry I can't give actual performance metrics on that!

Answer 3

some more discussion here:

• http://stackoverflow.com/questions/46252/is-there-a-way-i-can-have-a-vm-gain-access-to-my-computer