Accessing VirtualBox host drive from IIS guest OS

Hi there,
I have a setup with Windows 7 as the host OS that is running VirtualBox (4.2.18). The guest I am running is using Windows Server 2012 as the OS. The guest OS has its own domain, completely separate from the host.
For development purposes I want to configure a dev web app that pulls its files from the host and runs them in an IIS process within the guest. How do I proceed?
I really would like to use the VirtualBox's UNC path \\vboxsrv\d_drive but I am getting the following error from IIS:
HTTP Error 500.19 - Internal Server Error
The requested page cannot be accessed because the related configuration data for the page is invalid.
One solution as a workaround that I have found is creating a new shared drive, e.g. d$ on the host, add an account (e.g. "virtualbox") on host and guest, and configure this account as the apppool-account and as the connection-account with cleartext
credentials to the physical path of the webapp. This is a lot of work. With this setup I experience delays of 5 seconds, that I guess are due to the authentication that is always taking its time.

Hi,
It seems like that the user account you're using for your app pool doesn't have rights to the web site directory, so it can't read config from there. Check the app pool and see what user it is configured to run as. Check the directory and see
if that user has appropriate rights to it. While you're at it, check the event log and see if IIS logged any more detailed diagnostic information there.
Please post in the IIS forum for further analysis:
http://forums.iis.net/
Regards,
Yan Li
Cataleya Li
TechNet Community Support

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