posted 14 years ago
I think you're not so much "sharing" as you are publishing a part of the host's filesystem into the guest. The main differences are that 1) - the "share" is presented as a virtual hard drive and 2) you probably aren't provided with filesystem locks that true sharing needs where both host and guest can write to files without danger of corruption.
If you're doing the virtual hard drive thing, just make note of what virtual device ID it uses (for example, /dev/sdb) and create a mount in fstab jiust like you would for NFS or Samba. Or an actual physical hard drive.
The secret of how to be miserable is to constantly expect things are going to happen the way that they are "supposed" to happen.
You can have faith, which carries the understanding that you may be disappointed. Then there's being a willfully-blind idiot, which virtually guarantees it.