Jat 10:06 am This is really helpful!! Thank you very much ! You may have to reboot to remount the share, the easiest way to do this is probably to reboot the VM. Type in usermod -a -G vboxsf username, replacing username with the user you want to add to the group, hit Enter. Jat 1:38 am If you want to add a user to a group in Fedora, do the following: For those who might not see the files in the shared folder, try from terminal ls /home/username/Documents/Share and now if you see the data but not in the file viewer, then go to /home/username/Documents/Share in the file viewer and on the top menu go to view tab and select reload folder or F5. Worked like a charm.Īt 1:16 am Very helpful. Maat 2:35 pm hello, i followed all the steps correctly but i still cant see me “shared” folder mounted anywhere what should i do? Where do i check if it shared in guest OS?įebruat 1:32 pm I believe it’s mounted as a disk, so you can use the file explorer that came installed with the guest OS. As root on Linux guest, do chmod +x /etc/rc.d/rc.local without which the rc.local commands will not be executed.įebruat 12:53 pm Nice! Thank you for sharing that!įebruat 11:37 am I followed every step correctly. In VirtualBox VM shared folder settings, do not enable Automount.Ģ. I needed to make 2 small changes in order to get shared folders to work with my Linux guest:ġ. What is Terminal? How do I move on to the rest.? DO you by any chance has a picture as an example to summarise these steps? Many thanks in advance for your help.įebruat 10:27 am Thanks for the instructions! I’m stuck from point 2.2 “open up Terminal” onwards. I’m using mac – sierra as a host and windows 10 in Virtual box. can anybody help me please?Īugat 4:57 am I’m totally lost when it comes to “2. Jat 2:00 pm Thanks! This really helped me, too.ĭecemat 1:28 pm I went through everything you explained in 1. Previously posted in WordPress and transferred to Ghost. Now hit “ESC”, type :wq and hit ENTER to save and quit the file editing.Īfter you restart the guest OS, your shared folder will be automatically mounted./Documents/Share should be the absolute path of the new folder you created.username should match your Linux username.Share should match the folder name from step 1.1000 should match the ID you noted down earlier.Type in the following: sudo mount -t vboxsf -o uid=1000,gid=1000 Share /home/username/Documents/Share.Move your cursor right above exit 0 and press the letter “i” on your keyboard to insert text.Edit the rc.local file using vi rc.local.Browse to the etc folder using cd /etc.Switch to the root user using sudo su and enter your password.Type in id and press ENTER- remember that ID.Create a folder in your guest OS that you want to share.Check Auto-mount and Make Permanent, if available.Enter a folder name with no spaces e.g.Browse to a folder of your choice in the folder path.
#VIRTUALBOX SETTINGS FOR WINDOWS 10 GUEST MAC HOST PLUS#
Click on the folder with the plus on the right.In VirtualBox, click your OS on the left and click on Settings.This is mainly for my own reference, but here it goes.
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