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Bakhtiyor
Asked: 2010-11-27 07:40:10 +0800 CST

How to open files which are located in VirtualBox's Guest Machine from Netbeans of Host Machine

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I have Ubuntu 10.04 installed in my Host Machine and it has VirtualBox. I have Guest Machine wich runs Ubuntu 10.10.

I have NetBeans installed in Host Machine and need to open my project files which are located in Guest Machine. The reason I need it is because in my working place I have not access to install any applications, that is why I have Guest Machine where I have Web Server installed on it and also I have one web application that I am developing.

I need to open that web application files from Guest Machine's Netbeans in order to modify/create new files for my web application.

I have configured SSH server of Guest Machine and added port redirection in the VirtualBox so that now I can connect to it from Host Machine. But I could not find any way to open those files from Netbeans.

Could anybody give me advice about how can I do that please?

UPDATE

I forgot to say that I don't want to use SharedFolders.

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4 Answers

  1. There's a much easier way. Just store your project in a shared folder. Set up shared folders using these instructions and keep your source code there. Now you can access the files in Ubuntu using any method you want.

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  2. try looking into shared folders in vbox. It would basically allow you to share files without the need for samba/ssh/ftp.

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  3. If I understand if right ssh is working

    You can navigate to any folder in the Guest Machine with Nautilus (press CTRL+L and type ssh:/ip/folder/folder in the address bar) or connect to it selecting "Connect to server" from the file menu.

    After doing that the remote filesystem will be mounted under ~/.gvfs. You should be able to open any file from there from any program that can access the local filesystem.

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    • go to your netbeans project and click on "properties"
    • go to "Run configuration" and fill in all your project + virtualbox details
    • make sure when you press "test connection", you get a message saying "connection succeeded"
    • now, go to your virtualbox terminal and make sure you change ownership permissions for that folder to include your username..... use the following command:

    sudo chown -R your-username:current-folder-owner /path/to/project/root

    • you should be able to save remotely to your virtualbox at this point :)
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