![]() ![]() Overcome the limitations for mouse support described in This chapter describes the Guest Additions in detail. Your life much easier by providing closer integration between hostĪnd guest and improving the interactive performance of guest For any seriousĪnd interactive use, the Oracle VM VirtualBox Guest Additions will make Installing operating systems in a virtual machine. The previous chapter covered getting started with Oracle VM VirtualBox and Controlling Virtual Monitor Topology 4.11.1. Using the Guest Control File Manager 4.9. Using Guest Properties to Wait on VM Events 4.8. Hardware 2D Video Acceleration for Windows Guests 4.6. Hardware 3D Acceleration (OpenGL and Direct3D 8/9) 4.5.2. ![]() Guest Additions for Oracle Solaris 4.2.4. Installing and Maintaining Guest Additions 4.2.1. Subscribe to TechRepublic’s How To Make Tech Work on YouTube for all the latest tech advice for business pros from Jack Wallen.Table of Contents 4.1. This would help make your data center virtual machines more flexible and usable. Now, when you reboot the guest, the share will be automatically mounted.Īnd that’s all there is to creating a shared folder between a VirtualBox host and guest. Make sure the change out SHARED for the name of the shared folder on the host, USER with your username on the guest, and share with the mount point on the guest. SHARED /home/USER/share vboxsf uid=1000,gid=1000 0 0 Open that file on the guest with:Īt the bottom of that file, add the following line: To make this share permanent, you have to add an entry to the fstab file. Unfortunately, clicking Make Permanent in the VirtualBox settings for the share doesn’t actually work. You can now open your file manager to see that the contents of the SHARE folder on the host now show up on the share mount point on the guest. Mount the share with the command:Īgain, change the names SHARE and share to whatever you’ve named those folders. In my case, I named it pop_share (since it’s being shared with Pop!_OS). You can name the mount point whatever you like. Click OK to save the changes and OK to dismiss the Settings window. ![]() Next, type a name for the new share and click the check box for Auto-mount. Navigate to the newly-created (or chosen) folder and select it. In the resulting popup ( Figure A), click the Folder Path drop-down and select Other.įigure A Creating your shared folder in VirtualBox 6.1. From the Settings window, select Shared Folders. With this folder created (or chosen), go back to your VM and select Settings. Open a terminal window and issue the command: ![]() Let’s create a folder in /home/USER/ named SHARED (Where USER is the same user who runs VirtualBox). How to define the shared folder in the guestīefore we do anything with the guest, we need to either choose a folder on the host or create one.
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