On Ubuntu guest, it need additional steps to make the shared folder accessible in guest. Till this step is enough for Windows guest. On my sample, I shared folder from OS X Host /Volumes/MacintoshHDData/share Select folder path of Host to be shared to Guest OSĬhecked Make Permanent option if we want to make it permanent.Go to Devices menu > Shared Folders > Shared Folder Settings.I usually restart my OS guest after installing this VirtualBox Guest Addition. If it automatically mounting and has popup dialog, just hit run otherwise we may have to manually mounting it.Go to Device menu > Insert Guest CD Addition Images.When we work with VirtualBox we often need to share folder between host and guest operating system.īefore sharing folder, ensure we have installed Guest Addition that shipped with VirtualBox. I use it as part of my development environment, since occasionally I need several different Operating Systems for development and software testing or deployment testing. It is a universal way to enable a shared folder and it should work for all distributions.VM VirtualBox is one of free popular hypervisor for x86 computer from Oracle. If you use some other distributions as a guest, look at the instructions for Debian. So, I will show you the settings for Arch Linux, Linux Mint and Debian as guest systems. In this tutorial, my host system is Arch Linux, but the host system does not matter in this case because we will do all the setting in the guest systems. Change the user permission for the shared folder.Install guest additions for your guest system.There are several essential steps you need to follow, to enable a shared folder between the real machine (host) and the virtual machine (guest): I will also show a universal way that should work for any Linux guest distribution. So, I will show you how to enable a shared folder in Virtualbox for Debian, Linux Mint/Ubuntu, and Arch Linux as guest systems.
However, configuring the Virtualbox to share files between your main system and the system you installed in a VirtualBox is not trivial. VirtualBox is a very useful tool to install operating systems inside the main system.
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