gentoo vpc file sharing to host

[sfroe]

I have gentoo running on a virtual PC on a XP laptop. Everything works great. I did have some problems installing, but I got past those. What I'm wondering is if anyone has an idea how I can access folders on the xp host from my gentoo guest. When windows is installed as a guest OS they have the VPC additions, which offers a shared folders option. Is there any way to get something similar running with linux/gentoo?
If not, then maybe networking them together? Ill be carrying the laptop around with me at school, and I dont neccarly want to transfer everything over the network to the same physical computer. I have tryed using the NATing abilty of VPC but as i suspected, that didnt work. any other ideas???

thanks