[Discuss] Virtualbox/VMWare Workastation question - shares

[darose at darose.net (David Rosenstrauch)]

On 12/10/2013 02:33 PM, Jerry Feldman wrote:
> To create a shared directory using Virtualbox Guest Additions and the
> VMware equivalent, you set up virtualbox to point to a directory on the
> host system that would be shared with 1 or more guests.
>
> In a case I have, we need to share 1 or more directories from a gust OS
> with the Windows Host OS. Is there a mechanism for the guest OS to share
> one or more of its directories with the Host OS. With a Linux guest, the
> only way that I could do this is to use Samba (or NFS) to export to the
> Host OS. (Also assuming you have chosen the correct network scheme for the
> guest os). In a specific case we are using bridged,

Run cygwin on the Windows host and ssh/sftp into the Linux guest?

HTH,

DR