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How to work with Ext4 vmdk through VirtualBox and Windows at the same time?
Good afternoon.
I allocated a 20 GB partition on the HDD, connected it as a vmdk to VirtualBox and installed Ubuntu Server 16.04 LTS as a guest OS on an Ext4 formatted partition.
How can I configure Windows 10 to use an Ext4 partition at the same time and run it in VirtualBox at the same time?
At the moment, one of 2 options works - either Ext4 via ext2fsd, but VirtualBox does not start, since the disk is blocked for the virtual machine during mounting, or it can only be used in a virtual machine, but it will not work as a physical partition at the same time.
Why such complexity - you need an Ext4 FS running Linux to perform server tasks (it works faster than NTFS) and various tasks, but at the same time you need read / write access to this partition from Windows.
Let's say - I edited an image for the site in Photoshop, copy it in the Ext4 file system and run it immediately in Linux Gulp and Ruby (they move faster there) and everything works quickly.
So far, you have to either endure the snail speed in NTFS or reboot into a second Linux system to perform the operations for which this system was born.
There is, of course, an option to buy a poppy and not bathe, but you need Win for certain tasks.
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