VirtualBox – Seamless Mode With Windows and Linux Sharing Same Desktop
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VirtualBox seamless mode places the Windows taskbar above your Gnome or KDE taskbar. The Windows desktop is not displayed. When you open a Firefox or Internet Explorer web browser, from the Windows taskbar and save a file from a website, it will save to the Windows desktop. To compensate you can allow Windows to share the exact same desktop as your host Linux OS. You can save files from Windows web browsers directly to the shared Linux desktop.
Essential this is taking seamless a step further!!
First enable VirtualBox shared folder support for your desired guest OS. Make the shared folder either your Linux desktop directly, or simply your home directory. Then mount the shared folder in the guest OS:
net use x: \\vboxsvr\Desktop
Then open regedit. Locate the key:
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\User Shell Folders]
Change the desktop key to:
1) x: ; if you set the shared folder to be your Linux desktop folder
2) x:\Desktop ; if you set the shared folder to be your Linux home folder
Now just reboot your Windows guest OS and observe the seamless consolidation of your Windows and Linux desktops!!
This is one of my favorite Linux tweaks 
(Sorry this photo doesn’t exist anymore. I cannot retake a new screenshot because it isn’t my systems configuration anymore. I now run the virtual server in headless mode. If your interested in my new desktop configuration you can see it in this post!! Its frikkin cool.
On my system notice that a virtual server environment is running in the top right window. That is the actual server environment that is hosting this website.
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