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Moving files from Windows VM to my Host
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Just turn off the vm (shutdown the windows install running in the vm, not pause), mount the vm block device, navigate to the file and get it that way.
Are you using qemu?
Alternately, since the vm has network access, just use ssh from your windows vm to scp your files from the windows vm to the Linux host.
No I am using gnome boxes
alright, good news, you probably are using qemu. the disk images (that’s the hard drives for the vm) are usually in the .local/share/gnome-boxes/images/ in your home directory. if the images are .qcow2 files then you’re running qemu.