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My host is Windows 7, and VM is Ubuntu 12.04. I use it for web development and I need to make Git repo from virtual HDD visible for the host OS to edit files on the host. What is the best way to do it?

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There are two straight forward ways to accomplish this that are independent of the virtualization software that you are using.
1. set up a samba share folder on the guest and then add it like a shared network folder on the host. 2. Share a folder on the Windows host and then use samba to open/map it on the Ubuntu guest.

Virtual box, and I believe VMWare have an option to share folders between guest and host that uses this underlying setup but is all done through the gui of the virtualization software.

To be more specific I would need to know what path you would like to take. Option 1 would best match the paradigm of guest to host.

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  • Unfortunately, SAMBA share from Virtualbox's GUI doesn't preserve file permissions because all files are located at NTFS drive. If I do git diff, I get many messages about file permission changes. Thus I need some solution on the guest side.
    – Sergey Filkin
    Jan 7, 2014 at 6:07
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    It looks like you will have to set up a samba share on the guest then. Here is a link that covers the basic install of samba and configuration of a shared folder: help.ubuntu.com/10.04/serverguide/samba-fileserver.html watch out for this line in the instructions as ti will kill the permissions and I dontt think it is necessary $sudo chown nobody.nogroup /srv/samba/share/
    – Evan
    Jan 7, 2014 at 19:57
  • Updated link to the ubuntu Samba file server docs: help.ubuntu.com/lts/serverguide/samba-fileserver.html
    – mike
    Jul 9, 2015 at 15:54
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Right click the virtual machine in VirtualBox and select Settings. You'll see the dialog below with a button to add a shared folder.

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  • Thank you for your comment, but this solution doesn't preserve file permissions, because files are located at NTFS partition. I need another solution on the guest side.
    – Sergey Filkin
    Jan 7, 2014 at 6:08
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    In that case, you're talking about normal networking and virtualization is irrelevant. You might want to simply use Samba.
    – Jo-Erlend Schinstad
    Jan 7, 2014 at 22:40

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