If your home folder inside your guest contains folders having same name as VirtualBox shared folders, you can mount them automatically with following shell script : #!/bin/sh Inside a Linux or Mac OS X VirtualBox guest, once you have installed the VirtualBox Guest Additions, you can discover the available VirtualBox shared folders with following command : sudo VBoxControl sharedfolder list To confirm the change, use get: sudo VBoxControl guestproperty get /VirtualBox/GuestAdd/SharedFolders/MountDir Sudo VBoxControl guestproperty set /VirtualBox/GuestAdd/SharedFolders/MountDir /home/toto/ use the following command to set the VirtualBox shared folder guestproperty: For example, to change the mount point from /media/sf_. The command is installed when Guest Additions is installed. You can change where the folder is mounted by using the VBoxControl command. This is done by changing the vboxsf line in the /etc/group file. You can access the share by making the user, or group id of 1000, a member of group vboxsf. The default mount location is in /media/sf_.

The issue becomes that the mount point may not be where desired, and the permissions are root only. In the Linux guest, the mount command should show a line that the share was mounted. Make sure VirtualBox Guest Additions are installed in the VirtualBox guest. Use the VirtualBox host's application, VirtualBox Manager, to specify host folders to share. VirtualBox with a Linux guest, these are the steps to mount a shared folder: This is because the Host OS (Windows) doesn’t support the same permission system as Linux, so VirtualBox has no way of knowing who should own the files. So you wouldn’t worry about changing their permissions (which don’t make sense on the Windows host), you just give yourself access. By adding your user to that group, you gain full access. The regular way of getting access to the files now, is to allow VirtualBox to automount the shared folder (which will make it show up under /media/sf_directory_name) and then to add your regular Ubuntu user to the vboxsf group. There was above all a lack of clear instructions about how to just get this done, and move on with the rest of your day.Ĭonfigure the shared folder to be auto-mounted (it’s a setting on the Shared Folder configuration in VirtualBox itself). One of the critical “settings” in such a situation is the setting up of a “shared-folder” in which you can transfer files between the windows host and the Ubuntu-Mate guest. Sometimes you may need to run Ubuntu-Mate in a VirtualBox virtual machine, for example at your place of work.

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