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Make Permanent: This option makes the shared folder a Machine Folder.

Auto-mount: This option makes the guest operating system attempt to automatically mount the folder when it boots.

Enable the “Read-only” checkbox if you want the virtual machine only to be able to read files from the shared folder, but not modify them.

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Read-only: By default, the virtual machine has full read-write access to the shared folder.

Folder Name: This is how the shared folder will appear inside the guest operating system.

Folder Path: This is the location of the shared folder on your host operating system (your real PC).

In the “Add Share” window, you can specify the following:

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Give permissions to the shared folder.Click the “Add” button (the folder with a plus on it) to create a new shared folder.

Problem is that you cannot access it unless you are logged in as root user.

Tick the Auto-mount option, so that it automatically mounts the folder on VM startupĪfter adding a shared folder, your folder appears in your VM as sf_.

Folder name: name of the shared folder to be displayed in your VM.

Folder path: path to the folder to be shared with your VM.

Settings > Shared Folders > Add new shared folder.

In VirtualBox Manager select your Virtual Machine (VM).

And all the necessary packages: linux-headers, build-essential, gcc, make.

Make sure that you have Guest Additions installed Late to the party, but here is the solution that worked well for me:

Try adding any file in windows(Host OS) Ubuntu share folder now check Ubuntu(Guest OS) windowsshare directory the file will be reflected. Now you can share the files between Windows and Ubuntu. ~/Desktop/windowsshare is the directory in Ubuntu(Guest OS) Ubuntushare is the name of folder we add in VirtualBox Devices section this folder is in Windows(Host OS). Run this command to share the folder: $ sudo mount -t vboxsf Ubuntushare ~/Desktop/windowsshare

With your mountpoint created you can now mount the shared folder. Run this to create a directory in Ubuntu $ sudo mkdir ~/Desktop/windowsshare When done with you shared folder(s) specification, we mount folder from Ubuntu(Guest OS).Ĭreate a mountpoint, this a directory in Ubuntu that will share files with the shared folder from Windows. From Virtual menu go to Devices->Shared Folders then add a new folder in the list, this folder should be the one in windows which you want to share with Ubuntu(Guest OS).Įxample -> Make a folder on Desktop with name Ubuntushare and add this folder.

When the program completes reboot your VirtualBox. As root user Open this /media/cdrom added folder using Open with terminal option(Right click with mouse). This will mount a virtual CD on your /media/cdrom.

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Install install Guest Additions from VirtualBox’s menu go to Devices->Install Guest Additions Share a folder between Host OS-> Windows and Guest OS ->Ubuntu(Virtual box)

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Source and further reading: Virtual Box User Manual The guest will need to restart to have the new group added. To have access to these folders users in the guest need to be a member of the group vboxsf. In case we enabled auto-mounting on creating a shared folder from the Virtual Box Manager those shared folders will automatically be mounted in the guest with mount point /media/sf_. Of course, we can also use different mount options to mount as read/only or mount with read access only to root. Sudo mount -t vboxsf -o uid=1000,gid=1000 sharename /home//vboxshare If prerequisites are met we may mount these shared folders manually by running the following commands in the guest: mkdir /home//vboxshare

There are some limitations for shared folders (see this question for details). Use the -transient option if you only want the shares to appear in the present session but not persistent for following sessions. This can be done from the command line on the host with: VBoxManage sharedfolder add "VM name" -name sharename -hostpath "C:\test"īy adding the option -readonly we can restrict these for read-only access. Access to shared folders in Virtual Box Command lineīy default, VirtualBox shared folders are created with read/write permission for the guest.