Mounting other shares could also be obtuse, although automated subsequently by user-made scripts. But dragging and dropping between the VM and Finder does not work at this time. Strangely enough it works by browsing and displaying the exact share point we typed above. In Windows, this share is located at \\VBOXSRV\ShareName, although it didn't work if we typed it directly. To access them in Linux, we had to mount them manually using 'mount –t vboxsf share_name mount_point'. Like its competitors, we used shared folders under both Linux and Windows. Headless operation proved especially useful on a server such as an Xserve, if we would have wanted to run some server VMs. This is a great feature that the other two competitors do not have. This worked really well and all operating systems are supported (RDP does not need to be enabled inside the VM). Using command-line tools and services, we were able to connect via Remote Desktop. One feature we really liked was the ability to run VirtualBox VMs without starting up the GUI. USB detection of media was iffy on the flash drives we used, and we found that VirtualBox was unable to give information to Ubuntu regarding the flash drive file system format that was available to guest VMs under Parallels or VMware Fusion.
It worked but it also made the CPU usage significantly increase. Hardware support is a bit flaky with USB devices under Virtual Box, as we tried installing iSight drivers from BootCamp in order to use the built-in iSight.
0 kommentar(er)
