One of its most impressive features is the ability to transfer files between the host and guest operating systems! Oddly, if I rename the file on the windows side, or unmount and remount the filesystem, the changes show up immediately.Oh my stars! Can you believe the power of VirtualBox? It's an awe-inspiring virtualization software used by countless organizations and individuals to create and manage virtual machines (VMs) on their computers. # after vi on linux just ':w!' - shows changes in browser Size: 14830 Blocks: 29 IO Block: 4096 regular file # after saving on Win7 gVim - changes not in browser I thought is might have something to do with access or modification times, so tried stat index.html between each action. If I open the file in a terminal using vim, and simply save it using ':w!' then changes show in the browser. If I edit an html file using gVim on Win7, and refresh the browser, the changes are not shown, and view source shows the unchanged file. This problem also exists using IDEs like PhP Storm or others. Any PHP changes show correctly on refresh.

The symptom only shows up on html and css files.

Most of my development editing is done on the windows side, using gVIM and Notepad++.

I am using a Win7 Pro computer, with the latest version of VirtualBox, and the correct Guest Additions. If not resolved this could drive me away from VirtualBox. I've been thinking it was a caching issue with Apache, and trying unsuccessfully to implement expiry. This has been driving me nuts for months.

Virtualbox send file to vm