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I really hate using WinSCP for file transfer between Windows and the guest OS. If Windows shipped with a native sshfs-alike, I'd probably be ok, but I really pr

I really hate using WinSCP for file transfer between Windows and the guest OS. If Windows shipped with a native sshfs-alike, I'd probably be ok, but I really prefer native Ubuntu development.

zmmmmm 12y ago
There are lots of alternative solutions to share file systems between a VM and host ... is that all you're trying to solve? VirtualBox has it built in.
- lukeschlather 12y ago
  No, I'm also trying to share between my laptop and a remote server. (actually, I very rarely use VMs hosted locally)
  - mreiland 12y ago
    I use a samba share, it works a treat and in the 3-4 years I've been running it I've never had much maintenance on it outside of the occasional update to the OS.
  - r00fus 12y ago
    I think you confused everyone with your terminology in your parent comment - "guest OS" is VM speak.
jerf 12y ago
I don't have a click&go solution because I don't have this problem, but you could certainly serve a Samba share out of the guest OS or something.
StavrosK 12y ago
What's wrong with VirtualBox shared folders? Also, Windows-native sshfs-alike is SMB.
tomc1985 12y ago
Set up samba? (thats how I work) What about NFS?
dade_ 12y ago
https://chocolatey.org/ https://chocolatey.org/ Choco install git.install /GitAndUnixToolsOnPath Choco upgrade git.install It is a beautiful world with and my slashes work both ways!
WorldWideWayne 12y ago
I run Fedora 21 w/ full screen Gnome 3 in VirtualBox, so I can use Linux desktop tools and no SCP is needed. The touch screen even works with Gnome. Even rdp remoting into my Surface from my desktop to use the Linux guest has also been the best performing Windows to Linux remote control that I've used for the amount of setup time. On a gigabit network, it's really nice.
lsc 12y ago
I use cygwin for ssh/scp, even if I don't need cygwin for anything else
thom 12y ago
You can map drives from a client over Remote Desktop if that's at all helpful.
lloeki 12y ago
Using (boot2)docker/docker-machine+virtualbox and mapping a volume to the host OS (which is trivial) might be viable. I use it on OS X to do linux-only stuff (such as loop-mounting an ext4 image).

I really hate using WinSCP for file transfer between Windows and the guest OS. If Windows shipped with a native sshfs-alike, I'd probably be ok, but I really prefer native Ubuntu development.

zmmmmm 12y ago

There are lots of alternative solutions to share file systems between a VM and host ... is that all you're trying to solve? VirtualBox has it built in.

lukeschlather 12y ago
No, I'm also trying to share between my laptop and a remote server. (actually, I very rarely use VMs hosted locally)
- mreiland 12y ago
  I use a samba share, it works a treat and in the 3-4 years I've been running it I've never had much maintenance on it outside of the occasional update to the OS.
- r00fus 12y ago
  I think you confused everyone with your terminology in your parent comment - "guest OS" is VM speak.

jerf 12y ago

I don't have a click&go solution because I don't have this problem, but you could certainly serve a Samba share out of the guest OS or something.

StavrosK 12y ago

What's wrong with VirtualBox shared folders? Also, Windows-native sshfs-alike is SMB.

tomc1985 12y ago

Set up samba? (thats how I work) What about NFS?

dade_ 12y ago

https://chocolatey.org/ https://chocolatey.org/ Choco install git.install /GitAndUnixToolsOnPath Choco upgrade git.install It is a beautiful world with and my slashes work both ways!

WorldWideWayne 12y ago

I run Fedora 21 w/ full screen Gnome 3 in VirtualBox, so I can use Linux desktop tools and no SCP is needed. The touch screen even works with Gnome. Even rdp remoting into my Surface from my desktop to use the Linux guest has also been the best performing Windows to Linux remote control that I've used for the amount of setup time. On a gigabit network, it's really nice.

lsc 12y ago

I use cygwin for ssh/scp, even if I don't need cygwin for anything else

thom 12y ago

You can map drives from a client over Remote Desktop if that's at all helpful.

lloeki 12y ago

Using (boot2)docker/docker-machine+virtualbox and mapping a volume to the host OS (which is trivial) might be viable. I use it on OS X to do linux-only stuff (such as loop-mounting an ext4 image).