virtual machine file sharing

[Blade_792]

i have windows 10 home as a main system and i am using an ubuntu 20.04 vm (using oracle virtualbox). The problem is thet i can't share file from the vm to the main system and viceversa, any suggestion?

the vm has on it 6 threads, 8gb ram and 12gb hard disk, while the main system has the other 10 threads, 8gb ram if this can help to find a solution

[azblurbit]

Probably the easiest way to do this is to just startup an http server using python and then navigating to it with your main system. You can do this by typing python -m http.server 9000 (without quotes) into the terminal. 9000 is the port. You can use any port that you want but that's just the one that I use. When you close out of the terminal or press Ctrl+Z it will stop that server from running. Just make sure you're at the proper directory when you do this.

[jaslion]

Depending on what you are using and whatnot you could make a shared folder. I usually just do a network shared folder in windows real quick with everyone acces read/write and call it a day.

[Blade_792]

2 minutes ago, jaslion said:

Depending on what you are using and whatnot you could make a shared folder. I usually just do a network shared folder in windows real quick with everyone acces read/write and call it a day.

i already tried this both from ubuntu and windows but they do not want to detect each other

 

[mahyar]

1 minute ago, Blade_792 said:

i already tried this both from ubuntu and windows but they do not want to detect each other

 

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[jaslion]

1 minute ago, Blade_792 said:

i already tried this both from ubuntu and windows but they do not want to detect each other

 

You have your network settings set correctly? So that the ubuntu vm is just on the network the windows machine is at and not using the windows machine as it's source of network access but basically connecting directly to the network itself?

[Blade_792]

4 minutes ago, jaslion said:

You have your network settings set correctly? So that the ubuntu vm is just on the network the windows machine is at and not using the windows machine as it's source of network access but basically connecting directly to the network itself?

i thinck this could be the problem because windows is on wifi and the ubuntu vm detect internet from a cable that do not exist.

how can i solve this?

[Kilrah]

You set network settings to bridged in virtualbox and select your wifi adapter, it'll then appear as if it was another physical machine on your network.