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Slow speed with shared folders in VirtualBox

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Mar 15, 202610194 views
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I'm using VirtualBox 3 on my Ubuntu 9.04 desktop, and I've got a VM with Windows XP sp3 mapping my ~/Documents folder as a shared folder. The virtualised Windows is mapping My Documents to the shared folder directly (//vboxsvr/Documents). The problem is that every time that I'm interacting with the…

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It seems to be an issue with name resolution. That happens on Windows machines while it tries to use the virtual network adapter to resolve the name. I have resolved this issue on a Windows host, but not on an Ubuntu host. I found this site that has…

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