Hi all,
I share my BoxCryptor (1.3.2.0) folder (that drive with the decrypted files) with a virtual WinXP machine using VirtualBox (newest version). BoxCryptor is ONLY running on the host (Win7 machine) and not on the virtual PC. Everything works great, e.g. I can directly open a text file (unencrypted) in Notepad or the like on the virtual machine. However, there is one strange thing: whenever a DIR command (directory listing) is given on the shared drive by me (e.g. in a DOS box) or by any application (e.g. the windows explorer) in the virtual machine, the listing is looped endlessly. E.g. when I open a DOS box on the virtual machine, change to the shared drive (i.e. the BoxCryptor drive of the host) and do a "DIR", the contents of that directory is listed repeatedly until I do a CTRL-C. Analogously, when I click on the directory in the windows explorer, it will freeze the explorer (as it sticks internally in that DIR-loop). This happens ONLY to the shared BoxCryptor directory, and ONLY on the virtual machine (on the host, the DIR command on the BoxCryptor drive works as it should).
Can you acknowledge this problem? To me this problem is really bad because I'd like to have a virtual machine on the DropBox which accesses private documents on the DropBox. I have worked with Wuala before, which already integrates the encryption and has a similar concept of providing a decrypted drive. There, the drive was fully transparent also to the virtual machine.
Thanks in advance for your answer,
Axel