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Share a folder between Host OS-> Windows and Guest OS ->Ubuntu(Virtual box)

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. Restart the Virtual Machine and your new folder should now appear under /media/.Access to shared folders in Virtual Box Command lineīy default, VirtualBox shared folders are created with read/write permission for the guest. Run the following commands within the VM: Select Devices > Insert Guest Additions CD Image. If it isn't, select this option to eject the ISO (presumably) used to provision the VM. Select Devices > Optical Drives and ensure that Remove disk from virtual drive is greyed out. Sudo dnf -y groupinstall 'Development Tools'

Sudo dnf -y install kernel-devel-$(uname -r) Start the Virtual Machine and run the following commands: Now tick the checkbox next to Auto-mount and click OK to complete, and again to exit the Settings menu.