Moving and Copying Files and Text Between Virtual and real Machine

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in this video you are able to Moving and Copying Files and Text Between Virtual and real Machine

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Virtualbox 5, now allows bidirectional drag’n’drop between Host and Guest machines.

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Hi,

i guess it depends partly on your setup, but i use KVM, so a generic option would be:

  1. setup a NFS server and connect your VMs to it.
    this gives a mount point on the VM which acts like a local disk.

  2. assuming you have SSH setup, you can use SCP to/from your remote hosts (your VMs)

both are easy to setup and implement.

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Yeah, just to expand on the SSH option a little, most file browsers support SFTP as protocol so for example, in Dolphin (the KDE file browser) you can do a “View” → “Location bar” → “Editable location”, then enter your ssh path, for example; “sftp://(user)@(host)”, and it will open up a file window showing files from the specified user/host. Then “File” → “Add to places” adds it as a persistent shortcut. You can then drag/drop files between machines as/when.
(there is a similar facility in Gnome and XFCE)