Friday, November 23, 2012

Monday, November 19, 2012

How to share folders between host and guest OS in VirtualBox





Once setting up the initial Virtualbox configuration, enter the guest Windows OS and type this to the command prompt to create a network drive to the host OS. 

net use x: \\vboxsvr\sharename

In Ubuntu, u need to go to the terminal and type this command

sudo mount -t vboxsf sharename ~/Vbox


* For Windows, the Host name is vboxsvr but in Linux the Host name is vboxsf.
**In Linux, u need to create folder first. I created Vbox and mounted the shared folder to this folder/mountpoint.
***Note: "sharename" is the name of the folder which was shared.