Those are both pretty high-effort projects just to save an extra keypress, though. Get port forwarding between guest and host, communicate that you want VirtualBox to be minimized.On the host, whenever shared/foo is modified, minimize VirtualBox. On the guest, switch-workspace & touch shared/foo. Share a folder shared between host & guest.There are a few super janky ways to accomplish this: VBoxClient minimize), but that doesn't exist as far as I can tell. What you need is some way to trigger VirtualBox actions from within VirtualBox (e.g.
So I check it, so that I can switch between windows of Linux vm via Alt + Tab, and when I need to go back to Windows host, I click Host key first or use mouse. When I am using Linux vm on a Windows host.Īctually most of the time I am working on the linux vm, and sometimes need to go to the Windows host.So I uncheck it, so that never need to click Host key to get back to Linux host. In the Windows vm browser with proxy is the only thing I need most of the time, and most of the time I am on Linux host.