Log out and back in, everything should work fine now. There is only one more step add any user in your guest system that needs access to the folder to the group vboxsf: sudo adduser $USER vboxsf You will see the following options there, Devices Shared Folders Shared Folder Settings Upon clicking on it you will see something similar to this. Job Done the shared folder appears on you guest machine as /media/sf_Vboxshare To mount VirtualBox shared folder on Ubuntu and access everything within the shared folder as the user, in this example htpcbeginner, you will have to manually add the user to vboxsf group using the following command: 1 sudo usermod -a -G vboxsf USER Of course, replace USER with your username. Then, go into settings for your virtual machine, select shared folders then the plus icon to create a shared folder and fill in the details set it to auto mount. Access the shared folder settings in the VirtualBox virtual machine settings Click on the Add button (plus sign) and specify a directory you wish to share with the guest operating system. I've created one called VboxShare in my home directory.įirst, make sure that your virtual machine is powered off. To share a host folder with a virtual machine in Oracle VM VirtualBox, you must specify the path of the folder and choose a share name that the guest can use to.
Next step create a folder on your host machine as as share area
I do not believe its possible to share files between the host and the guest without installing the extension pack first though I could be wrong on this.Ĭheck that the version of Virtualbox you have.
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