[–] BeauDacious 0 points 1 point 1 point (+1|-0) ago
You don't have to use itunes, you can try and get media monkey running under wine also. it will work with your idevice also
https://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=application&iId=5519
[–] Disappointed 0 points 3 points 3 points (+3|-0) ago
My friend does it with a VM and Win7.
or Read through this. I can't verify any though because I just fire up my offline windows gaming disk and use Itunes there.
https://askubuntu.com/questions/414737/how-do-i-install-itunes-on-ubuntu/534594#534594
You want the guest OS to store data on the host OS?
You can make a directory or paritition from the host OS available via network, possibly restricted to local connection, and mount that on the guest OS. You can do that right now, using NFS, SMB, FTP, SSH, WebDAV, or whatever, and mount any of them with FUSE wherever you need them to be in the guest OS.
[–] MRPockets ago
Here is a good place to start - https://help.ubuntu.com/community/PortableDevices/iPhone. The list there is not exhaustive and may a bit dated, but the information should be enough to get you started.