How to upgrade VirtualBox OSE to Puel (or share files with Windows guests)

[krishna.murphy]

I use Knoppix on a Flash with a "shared drive" approach - Knoppix looks like a couple of large files taking up room (no Vbox needed) but I'm only using Windows as an alternative that my wife knows better than Linux and sharing files for a later boot to Knoppix. Are you running Windows within the Virtual environment, I assume? If you'd like to share your virtual machine, I could try running it and see what I can do.

Cheers!
Krishna

[KRobert]

H Krishna,

Thanks for replying! I am also using the thumb drive approach to run Knoppix which leaves the system"untouched" with Windows 7 installed and usable (should it be needed). I need the Windows share because all my customers run Windows applications and I need to try things in a windows environment so Wine won't work. Last night, I tried something because I know this is "simply" a permissions problem: I switched to the terminal emulator and tried to create a file in my share (cat /dev/null >> testfile) as myself and then again as root. Only the attempts as root worked, which is what I suspected. The problem I have is that even after changing the group and user ID as well as permissions for the folder, as soon as I mount the share into the folder, the owner and group change to root! If I can figure out how to either properly change owner and group for the share, or change my user ID (which I will try later but I am not sure if changing it in etc/password will work). Let me know if you have any ideas

As for sharing the machine, that would not be a problem, if needed. Let me know what you need, in case we do go that way.

Regards, Robert