mount host-directories as volumes in the guest

[MoonKid]

It should be possible to mount a directory on the host as a volume to the guest. qemu is able to do this

[Achim Hasenmueller]

VBox is able to do that as well. See Shared Folders in the manual.

[MoonKid]

1. It does not work as described in the manual. I post it to the forum.

2. Each feature that is not accessabil over a GUI is a bug!

=> so reopen this ticked as a feature-request to add functionalities like this to the gui.

[Achim Hasenmueller]

A GUI has been added for the upcoming version 1.4. Besides that, it does work as described in the manual.

And no: not every feature is GUI accessible and it will remain like this for a lot of not so common features. Shared Folders already have a nice GUI, build SVN if you don't believe it.

[Technologov]

The GUI of 1.4.0 does half-job. It enables sharing, but I have to mount that share manually on the guest, which is unacceptable. It should auto-mount the shared folder on the Windows guest.

Not sure about the Linux guest, as there are no drive letters.

I think the GUI should allows me to choose which drive letter I want to mount the shared folder for Windows guest and to which directory to mount for Linux guest.

This procedure should be automatic, and user-friendly.

[Sander van Leeuwen]

It works as designed. I'll make shared folders browsable, but that's all. Once you map it in the guest, Windows will remember it.