[AccessD] 2007 in a Virtual Box

Rocky Smolin rockysmolin at bchacc.com
Sun Mar 10 17:06:16 CDT 2013


Thanks Charlotte.  The list got this sorted out for me in short order.
Installed guest additions and mapped a drive to the shared folder.  Walla! 

R 

-----Original Message-----
From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com
[mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Charlotte Foust
Sent: Sunday, March 10, 2013 12:25 PM
To: Access Developers discussion and problem solving
Subject: Re: [AccessD] 2007 in a Virtual Box

You should be able to map the VM to your private network and copy from the
real desktop to the virtual one.

Charlotte

On Thu, Mar 7, 2013 at 10:07 AM, Rocky Smolin <rockysmolin at bchacc.com>wrote:

> Dear List:
>
> I'm running VM VirtualBox and set up a machine with Office 2007 for a 
> test bed (to avoid that pesky install every time I want to switch 
> Office versions).
>
> Now I want to copy some mdbs from my C drive to the VM but of course 
> the VM doesn't see my HD.  I suppose I could copy to a USB and then 
> off the usb from inside the VM but I'll bet there's an easier way.
>
> Is there?
>
> TIA
>
> Rocky Smolin
> Beach Access Software
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