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Solved How To Copy Files From a Guest OS To Host OS?

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yeah right, vm. virtualbox.. just for fun I didn’t download the guest additions, so no shared folders. is there any alternative way to copy files from guest os to host os? my host PC s peppermint 5 and guest is winxp.

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      Here’s one way to transfer files without guest additions. It works with Virtualbox, and QEMU images. I learned this by searching on the internet.
      First, make sure the guest VM that you want to copy files from isn’t running.
      You will also have to have a driver for NTFS filesystem in your case.
      If you have QEMU-utils installed, you can use:

      sudo modprobe nbd max_part=16 #this loads network block device driver into kernel

      then…

      sudo qemu-nbd -c /dev/nbd0 <path to your VBox hdimage.vdi> #binds your hdimage to network block device, which can then be mounted as a normal filesystem.

      and lastly…

      sudo mount /dev/nbd0p1 /mnt #or wherever you’d like to mount it.

      When you’re done transferring files you’ll need to unmount the filesystem and…

      sudo qemu-nbd -d /dev/nbd0 #unbind hdimage from network block device.

      That’s it.
      I’ve used it several times, and it works very well.

      message edited by pbznmg18

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