Open the VM Settings and go to Shared Folders on your host operating system. Specifically, we need to define the location of the shared folder first. Before your start your guest operating system, you need to change its settings. Then just click return and the drive should show. Follow the step by step instructions below to configure a VirtualBox shared folder. Obviously you need to replace YOUR SHARED FOLDER NAME with whatever the name of your shared folder is, in my case the entry looked like this: \\vboxsvr\Virtual_Shared Bash command-line tools get access to the same files Windows does VirtualBox supports Shared Folders from manual: allow you to access files of your host. Now for the bit none of the documentation tells you! Choose a drive letter for the shared drive but instead of browsing for the drive (as you would normally) you need to enter this in the folder field: \\vboxsvr\YOUR SHARED FOLDER NAME Mount shared folder on CentOS in VirtualBox. Now in Vista, open Computer from the start menu and click the ‘Map network drive’ button. (Optional) To map a drive to the Shared Folders directory, select Map as a network drive in Windows guests. I added this under both Transient and Machine folders. Now start your guest machine (Vista in this instance) and choose Devices from the VirtualBox top bar menu.Ĭhoose ‘Shared Folders…’ and click the plus button on the right of the resultant window and browse to the shared folder you just made.
#VIRTUALBOX SHARED FOLDER HOW TO#
Here’s how to make it happen.įirstly, create a shared folder on your OSX machine (right-click on the folder you want to share/see in Vista choose ‘Get Info’ from the menu and then tick ‘Shared Folder’) If you are using the Vagrant VirtualBox provider, then VirtualBox shared folders are the default synced folder type. You will see your shared folder but with the string sf added at the beginning. Now open your file explorer : Virtualbox shared folders.
#VIRTUALBOX SHARED FOLDER INSTALL#
Run the command below as root : sudo apt install virtualbox-guest-utils. I was having trouble viewing a shared folder from the host operating system (Mac OSX in my case) on the guest operating system (Vista). Now run your Ubuntu virtualbox and open up a terminal session.