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Moving files from Windows VM to my Host (lemmy.ml)

submitted 4 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Hi everyone,

I am very new to Linux/GNU amd I have moved from windows to Fedora workstation 40 with GNOME a few moths ago.

I have been blown away how easy everything have been to migrate but there is one thing I can't migrate which is proton drive as they don't support Linux 😡.

I decided to follow some advice online and set up a windows VM in GNOME boxes and install proton Drive then I can copy/mount my files leaving the VM to sync my proton drive.

I have insralles spice on both the Host and the Guest OS and can copy filed to the VM but I can't for the life of me work out how to get from the VM.

I am probably being stupif but please be gentle I have only been using Linux for 2 months.

Thanks in advance.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Just turn off the vm (shutdown the windows install running in the vm, not pause), mount the vm block device, navigate to the file and get it that way.

Are you using qemu?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 months ago (1 children)

No I am using gnome boxes

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago

alright, good news, you probably are using qemu. the disk images (that’s the hard drives for the vm) are usually in the .local/share/gnome-boxes/images/ in your home directory. if the images are .qcow2 files then you’re running qemu.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Alternately, since the vm has network access, just use ssh from your windows vm to scp your files from the windows vm to the Linux host.