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VirtualBox: Can't copy files to a shared folder under ArcaOS guest

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Martin Iturbide:
Hello

We have two VirtualBox Addons, the official ones (7.1.0 ) from the VBox project and VBoxAddtions-os2-x86-5.0.51.r217 from Valery (Netlabs).

I like Valery's version because it has WPS integration (yes, with a lot of warning when you copy a file that seems to come from the WPS). Valery's version has the issues that David and Neil are pointing. Valery's created "vboxfs.ifs" (not to be confused with vboxsf.ifs"

I was hoping to create a ticket on the VirtualBox site requesting the WPS integration and try to take Valery's version for inspiration.
I'm not sure if Valery's the full source code is here: https://trac.netlabs.org/vbox/browser#tags/5.0.51/src

Regards

Neil Waldhauer:
I have opened a thread on the VirtualBox forum, and have received some advice

https://forums.virtualbox.org/viewtopic.php?t=112408

They say it's much better to use file sharing. To me, that means using SAMBA server to share OS/2 virtual hard disk. That way, the native browser, word processor, etc can use the OS/2 storage and my OS/2 programs can get at the resulting files.

Shared folders would be easier to use, but making them work fully seems to be difficult. Both versions of the OS/2 Additions are open source. The one Valery created is on Netlabs, and the Oracle is presumably available from Oracle.

David McKenna:
 Just installed VirtualBox 7.2.0 and this problem has been fixed in the new additions. Thanks Martin for reporting in github and thanks Knut for fixing it!

Regards,

Martin Iturbide:
David, thanks for the heads up about this new release.

Knut is awesome: https://github.com/VirtualBox/virtualbox/issues/98#event-19124240227

I will try out the new host and the new guest addons today.

Regards

Martin Iturbide:
Hello

In my case the problem had been fixed. It no longer Drag+Ctrl creates a zero file on the host. But the WPS message warning about the EAs (that is not part of Vbox) now shows up. I can live with it but I hope that it can be turned off.

From the side of VirtualBox 7.2.0 on the Windows Host, I had to uninstall the older VirtualBox and install 7.2 because I was getting an "Make sure the Kernel Module was loaded..." error when running any VM. But now it seems to works fine.

Regards

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