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I have a Virtual Box with Ubuntu 10.10 minimal installed. The computers that is running the virtual box is windows 7. How would I be able to access the files in the virtual box from Windows?

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You can install Guest Additions on your Ubuntu, and then use the feature called Shared Folders.
The name speaks for itself, basically you can link the folder from VirtualBox to the folder on your disk, or even mount it to a separate drive.

How-to's are here and here.

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Thanks! It seems to work already! –  Keenan Thompson Jun 14 '11 at 17:11
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