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Step 3Ĭlick on "Devices" tab provided on the VM VirtualBox taskbar and select "Shared Folders" from the drop-down list.

Start your Guest OS in which you want to share drives/folders and files contained in them. Run your Host OS and launch VM VirtualBox.

The Guest can be any version of Microsoft Windows (98, XP, Vista, 7, etc.).

Before you implement these steps on your VM, make sure that you have: However, with little effort I worked out these issues. I followed the steps provided from various help articles, but they were quite tricky and not straightforward and easy to implement. It needs some steps before you can use host drives and folders (and surely all the files contained in them). However, sharing host drives\folders might not be as simple as clicking and enabling sharing. VM does not provide usage of host drives/folders on Guest OS until they are explicitly shared. Once downloaded, setup a Guest OS (for which you can follow VM VirtualBox's provided instructions - installing Guest OS is not discussed here). One of these free VM managers is Oracle's VM VirtualBox, which can be downloaded from Oracle's website for all popular operating systems, such as Linux, Windows and Mac. Most people like to get free VM managers, so that they can install as many operating systems as they like over the host operating systems. However, the main functionality of all VMs are the same.

It is a universal way to enable a shared folder and it should work for all distributions.There are several virtual machine managers present in the market. If you use some other distributions as a guest, look at the instructions for Debian. So, I will show you the settings for Arch Linux, Linux Mint and Debian as guest systems. In this tutorial, my host system is Arch Linux, but the host system does not matter in this case because we will do all the setting in the guest systems.

Change the user permission for the shared folder.

Install guest additions for your guest system.

There are several essential steps you need to follow, to enable a shared folder between the real machine (host) and the virtual machine (guest): I will also show a universal way that should work for any Linux guest distribution.

This command appends the user to the vboxsf group, which is the owner of the shared folders (found in /media/.

So, I will show you how to enable a shared folder in Virtualbox for Debian, Linux Mint/Ubuntu, and Arch Linux as guest systems. To allow access to the shared folders permanently, copy and paste this command in a Terminal window: sudo usermod -G vboxsf -a USER USER will be replaced with your username. However, configuring the Virtualbox to share files between your main system and the system you installed in a VirtualBox is not trivial. VirtualBox is a very useful tool to install operating systems inside the main system.