After restart, the shared folder should be mounted to “/media/sf_”. Check “Auto-mount” and “Make Permanent” options, then press OK.Ģ-6. Set the path and name for the folder you want to share.Ģ-4. Click on “Adds New Shared Folder” icon.Ģ-3. On “Settings” window, select “Shared Folders”.Ģ-2. Enabling Shared Folder (Automatic Mounting)Ģ-1. (* For some reason, dragging and dropping files to Linux guest is not working in my environment.)Ģ. Select “Bidirectional” for both “Shared Clipboard” and “Drag’n’Drop”. Select your Ubuntu guest and press ctrl + s to open “Settings” window.ġ-3. Please see here (step 4, 22-24) for the installation.ġ-2. To enable those functions, “VirtualBox Guest Additions” needs to be installed on the guest OS. In this post, I use Windows 10 as the host and Ubuntu Linux as the guest.
You should now see the shared folder mounted as a network drive.This post shows how to enable clipboard sharing and file sharing via shared folder between VirtualBox guest OS and host OS. Make sure that the Reconnect at logon is checked. Where sharename is the name of the share folder that you add just now. Virtualbox mounts the shared folder in /media/sfshare (the name I gave to the shared folder in the virtualbox settings was share). I have a test.txt file that I created in Windows and it shows up appropriately in my Ubuntu VM. Open your Windows Explorer, click on the Map Network Drive I have a shared folder set up between virtualbox and my windows 7 host machine.
(Skip this step if you have already done so) Select the folder that you want to use as a share point. Then, click on the icon on the far right. On the left, click on the Shared Folders. On the right, make sure that the Enable Network Adaptor and Cable Connected are checked. Highlight the Vista VM entry (make sure that it is in Powered off state) and click on the Settings icon at the top. In your Ubuntu machine, open up Virtualbox ( Applications -> System Tools -> virtualBox). There are some issues in the earlier version which will cause the mounting to fail. Secondly, make sure you have updated your VirtualBox to the latest version (2.0.4). If you have not, here is the complete installation guide.
First of all, make sure you have already installed both VirtualBox and Windows Vista guest.
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