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A question that always generates calm and reasonable discussion: What OS do you use?
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(Score: 2) by number6 on Wednesday August 12 2015, @10:20PM
I'm making plans to move to some FOSS operating system.
What I want to do for now is play around with some FOSS systems booted as VM guests inside QEMU on my WinXP host.
I need some advice about how to setup a shared folder between the QEMU Guest OS and my Windows XP Host OS; I want to copy files in and out.
I'm not sure about how to do this using QEMU (my knowledge of how to network stuff is useless).
Setting up a shared folder using VMware Workstation is easy but I am trying to avoid it; it's a bloated monster and I prefer lean portable solutions....and I am curious to test QEMU's capabilities.
If QEMU does not end up serving my needs, then I may end up trying with "VirtualBox portable edition" [1]
I've done some reading on how to setup a QEMU shared folder but I'm still confused; the info I find on the internet is either uselessly dumb or else it drowns me with technical jargon.
I need a walkthrough step-by-step guide. Do any of you guys have useful info, it would be highly appreciated.
[1] "VirtualBox portable edition" is a launch wrapper program scripted and compiled in Autoit
Development(https://github.com/vboxme/Portable-VirtualBox) -- Homepage(http://www.vbox.me/)