Optionally, you can also mount the folder manually, but then you must modify access permissions in order to make the folder writable by non-root users. The Auto-mount checkbox should be enabled. For example, if the shared folder on the host machine is /home/peter/Music, the corresponding folder name defaults to /media/sf_Music on the Ubuntu guest OS, and \\vboxsvr\Music on the Windows guest OS. You should note the folder name in order to identify the full folder pathname on the guest OS. The Folder name field refers to the folder name on the guest OS, which defaults to the folder name you specified in the last step. Specify the path for the shared folder.Ĭlick the down arrow next to the Folder Path parameter, select Other, and navigate to the target shared folder.Note that you can have more than 1 shared folder.
Select Shared Holders, and click the Plus button to add a shared folder.Note that your guest machine does NOT need to be powered off. Open the Oracle VM VirtualBox manager on your host machine, select the target guest OS, and click Settings. Part 1 of this series includes instructions for installing the guest additions package for the FreeBSD guest OS. To share a folder using the following procedure, the OS-specific guest additions package must be pre-installed. You can set up NFS or Samba to share a folder between a Linux host and a FreeBSD guest. The method outlined in this blog post works for Linux and Windows guest OSes but not FreeBSD. Part 3 shows how the guest OS can access USB drives mounted on the host. Part 2 outlines the post installation tasks, including installing the universal VirtualBox extension pack.
Part 1 of the series shows how to install VirtualBox on a Debian host, and how to create a FreeBSD virtual machine. The focus is on how to share folders between the host and the guest OSes.
This post is the 4th installment of the VirtualBox series.
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