![]() ![]() To have access to these folders users in the guest need to be a member of the group vboxsf. In case we enabled auto-mounting on creating a shared folder from the Virtual Box Manager those shared folders will automatically be mounted in the guest with mount point /media/sf_. Of course, we can also use different mount options to mount as read/only or mount with read access only to root. Sudo mount -t vboxsf -o uid=1000,gid=1000 sharename /home//vboxshare If prerequisites are met we may mount these shared folders manually by running the following commands in the guest: mkdir /home//vboxshare There are some limitations for shared folders (see this question for details). Use the -transient option if you only want the shares to appear in the present session but not persistent for following sessions. ![]() This can be done from the command line on the host with: VBoxManage sharedfolder add "VM name" -name sharename -hostpath "C:\test"īy adding the option -readonly we can restrict these for read-only access. Access to shared folders in Virtual Box Command lineīy default, VirtualBox shared folders are created with read/write permission for the guest.
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