VirtualBox: guest OS integration with external web browser?

Question

linux

Kubuntu 10.10 is installed on the computer, WindowsXP is installed as a guest system in VirtualBox.
The question is: is it possible to redirect a request to open a web page from Windows to the main system?
So that when you click on a link in Windows, the page opens in a browser in Kubuntu (Google Chrome browser).

Answer 1

Ready software, I think, no.
However, I would suggest such a bike - on the guest machine we register our program as an http protocol handler. This program drops a file in a configured Shared Folder, in a defined format (plain text with a link is fine).
A monitor program is running on the server, which reacts to changes in the shared folder.
And when it finds a new file, it parses it and opens a browser on the host.
Yes, a little sloppy, but it is written quite quickly.

Answer 2

Built-in means - I think that it is impossible. Of the relatively simple methods, you can try the following: create a shared folder for the virtual machine (well, or share it from the host via samba), write a mini-project that will be registered as an HTTP link handler and which, when called, will create a certain file in this shared folder with the address given to her. On the host, hang a script that either periodically polls this folder, or monitors it through inotify, and when a file appears, it reads the address and starts Chrome.

Answer 3

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