After I started using Ubuntu VM in VirtualBox, I needed to share an entire folder from VirtualBox host to guest. Let me provide the steps I used to share a folder.
- In the host, I created the folder I wanted to share to the guest.
- I powered off the host VM.
- In VirtualBox Manager, I selected my host VM & then clicked on "Settings" in the top menu.
- Then, it opened up the following screen:
- Then, I clicked on "Shared Folders" to see the following screen. In this screen, I clicked "+" symbol highlighted as below:
- Then, a popup opened:
- I provided the folder I wanted to share to the guest & selected "Auto-mount":
- Then, clicked "OK"s to finish.
- Then, started the VM.
- Then, opened file explorer & browsed this path: Devices --> Computer --> media. Here I saw the folder I shared in my guest, but the name of the folder was prefixed with "sf_":
- Then, when I clicked on the folder, I got an error:
- The cause of this error was that the user "babu" didn't have access permissions because user "babu" wasn't part of the group the folder has permissions. To fix this, I ran the following commands. Basically, I added user "babu" to the group:
- Then, I rebooted. Browsed the same path: Devices --> Computer --> media --> sf_Linux_Code. This time, I could see the files inside the directory:
Hope this helps.
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