[Cialug] tips for sharing files inside a VM

Matthew Nuzum newz at bearfruit.org
Thu Mar 10 11:35:52 CST 2011


On Thu, Mar 10, 2011 at 11:33 AM, L. V. Lammert <lvl at omnitec.net> wrote:

> At 11:26 AM 3/10/2011, you wrote:
>
>  Sharing the folder with the virtual machine, mounting it in the machine as
>> a remote filesystem and then trying to create a symlink from the mounted
>> file system. However, virtual box does not support creating symlinks. :-(
>>
>> The obvious solution that works is to use version control or sftp. I'm
>> trying to think of something that just works so that I just hit save and
>> then refresh.
>>
>
> sftp would be the simplest approach.
>
>
I wonder if there's a way to make it happen automatically when a file
changes.

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