Check the option Automount, which will automatically mount the share to the guest when the system reboots. Mount point: You can choose the location for the mount point. I recommend leaving this blank so the guest will pick up the best path for mounting the folder. At any time, if you changed your mind and wanted to adjust the existing shared folder, you can come back to the shared folder option in VirtualBox and click on the gear icon to edit the settings.
You may go ahead and start the VM now. Once the VM has been started, you should be able to see the shared folder under files. As you can see, the folder is empty at the moment.
You may now go back to the windows folder and make sure you can see the folder in the windows share. As you can see, the folder has been shown. You can now start sharing files back and forth from windows to Ubuntu and vice versa. If you wanted to share the entire hard disk drive, maybe the whole C drive instead of a specific shared folder with a Guest Virtual machine, Ubuntu in our case, which is also possible.
All we have to do is instead of attaching the newly created folder. You can connect the entire C drive itself, and it should work fine. The conclusion is, you can not only share just a folder with the guest VM. You can even share the entire hard disk with it, giving the guest virtual machine access to the whole hard disk. And one thing to keep in mind is that you must always install the VirtualBox guest additions before proceeding with any of the above steps.
When that happens, you should get a prompt to run the software. Click Run to begin the installation. You will have to type your password to install the software. If your account is not an administrative account, the installation will fail. The Guest Additions suite of utilities is the official tools for VirtualBox virtual guest machines.
Now that the guest tool is installed in step 1, run the commands below to enable your account to access the host folder in Ubuntu. After running the command above from Ubuntu guest, to Ubuntu guest machine settings from the host software and share the folder from the host machine.
Select the guest machine you want to share with and go to the Settings tab and pick the Shared Folders from the list. Add a comment. Active Oldest Votes. Improve this answer. Community Bot 1. Takkat Takkat k 50 50 gold badges silver badges bronze badges. JordanBrough: totally correct - all ways lead to Rome. You can even use a graphical frontend users-admin. The command was edited in by another user. Thanks for your answer.. If there are multiple shared folders.. Or do you mean that sharename should be the same as vboxshare?
Show 6 more comments. Actually there is an easy way to do that: Install the extension pack for VirtualBox. Restart again. Lemmings19 6 6 bronze badges. I wasn't in the user group. Seems like that should have been automated by the gest additions or at least stated clearly. That should have been mentioned somewhere — AwokeKnowing. Atcold Logging out and in again adds the group to the current user session but did not trigger auto-mount of the shared folder in my case.
Only a reboot did. Also, is there a way to see the shared-folder before mounting, such as by using a command like lsblk or something?
Chris Moschini 4 4 bronze badges. NiloVelez NiloVelez 2 2 silver badges 6 6 bronze badges. Reboot worked for me! Shaurya Uppal Shaurya Uppal 3 3 silver badges 7 7 bronze badges. I had the same issue on Instead of installing the Guest Additions. Note that your VirtualBox might be too old for the Ubuntu version. I have installed It started working after upgrading to 6. Thank you very much for this , am using VirtualBox 6. VirtualBox version: 6.
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