I've been using VirtualBox more and more on my Mac as a potential replacement for Parallels, and it's great. (Parallels is also awesome, not least because it allows me to have a real bootable Windows partition which I can use both natively with a reboot into Windows or within Parallels from OSX, but it's pricey.)
I've started to use VirtualBox on Vista, to allow me to test stuff in Ubuntu without booting. However, I just hit an annoying problem with shared folders not working correctly. It took some time to Google for the solution, so I'll link to it here to help others along the way: shared folders with Vista Host and Linux Guest. The solution is to create an init.d script that manually mounts the folder shared from the Windows side.
Hope that helps...
Update: another fix: VirtualBox has a nasty habit of consuming a lot of processor. The VBoxSVC.exe fix seems to help for those running 2.0.2.
Posted by savs at October 8, 2008 10:07 AM