Sharing Folders Betwixt Virtualbox Host In Addition To Invitee Machines

This shipping service is the quaternary installment of the VirtualBox series. The focus is on how to portion folders betwixt the host as well as the invitee OSes. Part 1 of the serial shows how to install VirtualBox on a Debian host, as well as how to exercise a FreeBSD virtual machine. Part 2 outlines the shipping service installation tasks, including installing the universal VirtualBox extension pack. Part 3 shows how the invitee OS tin shipping away access USB drives mounted on the host.
The method outlined inward this spider web log shipping service plant for Linux as well as Windows invitee OSes but non FreeBSD. You tin shipping away ready NFS or Samba to portion a folder betwixt a Linux host as well as a FreeBSD guest.

Prerequisites

To portion a folder using the next procedure, the OS-specific invitee additions bundle must last pre-installed. Part 1 of this serial includes instructions for installing the invitee additions bundle for the FreeBSD invitee OS.

Procedure

1. Declare the shared folder on host OS.
   Open the Oracle VM VirtualBox manager on your host machine, pick out the target invitee OS, as well as click Settings. Note that your invitee auto does NOT demand to last powered off.
   
2. Select Shared Holders, as well as click the Plus push to add together a shared folder. Note that yous tin shipping away accept to a greater extent than than 1 shared folder.
   
3. Specify the path for the shared folder.
   Click the down arrow adjacent to the Folder Path parameter, pick out Other, as well as navigate to the target shared folder.
   
4. Configure the shared folder.
   The Folder name land refers to the folder get upwards on the invitee OS, which defaults to the folder get upwards yous specified inward the final step. You should complaint the folder get upwards inward guild to position the amount folder pathname on the invitee OS. For example, if the shared folder on the host auto is /home/peter/Music, the corresponding folder get upwards defaults to /media/sf_Music on the Ubuntu invitee OS, as well as \\vboxsvr\Music on the Windows invitee OS.
   
   The Auto-mount checkbox should last enabled. Optionally, yous tin shipping away too mountain the folder manually, but as well as therefore yous must alter access permissions inward guild to brand the folder writable past times non-root users.
   
   Unless the shared folder is for one-off purpose only, yous should enable the Make Permanent checkbox.
5. Power recycle the invitee machine.
6. Grant folder access permission to non-root users.
   This footstep alone applies to Linux invitee OS(not Windows). Login to the invitee OS, as well as add together regular users to the vboxsf grouping using the next command.
   
   sudo usermod -aG vboxsf <someuserID>

Related posts

• Part 1 of VirtualBox serial - on installation.
• Part ii - post-installation.
• Part three - mounting of USB drives.

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