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Quoth · 02-21-2025, 02:09 PM

Not a good idea to access the same database from two programs, especially when not same OS and VM to do that is hugely less safe than dual boot and Linux accessing the NTFS.

Things like that (and NAS/net shares) work till they don't.

I've found that the Vbox (guest OS) isn't reliable at accessing files shared from the host OS. I make a copy.

Though I'm the other way round, XP, W7 and Win10 VMs using VBox on the native Linux Mint (A Dell 7050 lunch box). Linux Mint with Mate is FAR faster on same HW as Win7 or Win10 (I've a spare Lenovo E460 laptop that I can swap the HDD on quickly, it's a 2016 i5 with AMD GPU & 8G RAM).

02-21-2025, 02:09 PM	#2
Quoth Still reading Posts: 14,258 Karma: 105299897 Join Date: Jun 2017 Location: Ireland Device: All 4 Kinds: epub eink, Kindle, android eink, NxtPaper	Not a good idea to access the same database from two programs, especially when not same OS and VM to do that is hugely less safe than dual boot and Linux accessing the NTFS. Things like that (and NAS/net shares) work till they don't. I've found that the Vbox (guest OS) isn't reliable at accessing files shared from the host OS. I make a copy. Though I'm the other way round, XP, W7 and Win10 VMs using VBox on the native Linux Mint (A Dell 7050 lunch box). Linux Mint with Mate is FAR faster on same HW as Win7 or Win10 (I've a spare Lenovo E460 laptop that I can swap the HDD on quickly, it's a 2016 i5 with AMD GPU & 8G RAM).