Open Computer, you’ll see CD Driver marked as ‘VirtualBox Guest’.Ĥ. If you don’t see the Guest window menu, press right- Ctrl + C on keyboard.ģ.

Boot up the Guest OS (Windows 7 in the case), and then go to menu Devices -> Insert Guest Additions CD image.

Enable ‘Read-only’ if you DON’T want to add/edit the folder files in Guest.Ģ.

Folder Name, auto generated after chosen folder.

Folder Path, choose a folder in the Host OS to share with.

Click ‘Adds new shared folder’ button in the right.

Navigate to Shared Folders in left pane.

In Virtualbox (6.0.8 in the case), open Settings of the Windows Guest OS. And this can be done via Shared Folder feature.ġ. One of the top things after installed a virtual machine via VirtualBox is how to transfer files between host OS and guest OS. Enter the command /sbin/mount.vmhgfs -h to list the options.įor Linux kernel version 4.0 or later, enter the command /usr/bin/vmhgfs-fuse -h to list the available options.This quick tutorial shows how to share a folder in Virtualbox Ubuntu host and get access within Windows virtual machine. Mounts the subdirectory bar within the share foo to /var/lib/barįor Linux kernel prior to version 4.0, you can use VMware-specific options in addition to the standard mount syntax. host:/foo/bar /var/lib/bar -o subtype=vmhgfs-fuse,allow_other host:/foo /tmp/foo -o subtype=vmhgfs-fuse,allow_other host:/ /home/user1/shares -o subtype=vmhgfs-fuse,allow_other

Mount Command Syntax Linux Kernel Prior to 4.0 The commands also vary depending on the Linux-kernel version of the guest. You can use different mount commands to mount all shares, one share, or a subdirectory within a share to any location in the file system. Linux kernels 4.0 and later use a FUSE file system component. In Linux kernels prior to version 4.0, the VMware Tools services script loads a driver that performs the mount. After you enable a shared folder, you can mount one or more directories or subdirectories in the shared folder to any location in the file system in addition to the default location of /mnt/hgfs.ĭepending on the kernel version of the Linux guest operating system, VMware Tools uses different components to provide shared-folder functionality.

Linux vm shared folder