08-20-2015, 04:06 PM
(This post was last modified: 08-20-2015, 04:13 PM by torreydale.)
To m654321 ,
The following assumes you've installed Virtualbox guest additions to your VM. Since your guest VM recognizes USB devices and since the desktop resizes, it sounds like guest additions and the Virtualbox Essentials Pack have been installed.
Now to get shared folders between the host and the guest, do the following:
1) Create a folder on your host machine that you want to share with your VM.
2) With your VM powered off, go to the VirtualBox settings of your VM.
3) Go to the Shared folders section of those settings.
3) For Machine Folders, add a shared folder pointing to the folder you created on your host machine, and set it to Auto-mount.
4) Start your VM.
5) After the reboot, within the VM, go to the User Manager (Menu->Settings->User Manager).
6) Add your user account to the vboxsf user group (ie. for your user account, put a check mark next to vboxsf).
7) Restart your VM.
The shared folder on the VM will be under the /media parent folder. You can create a test document there and see it show under the folder you created on your host machine.
Same directions are in this video with one exception...the video producer added the user account to the vboxsf group using the terminal instead of the user manager.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TcrfrVNNGMU
The following assumes you've installed Virtualbox guest additions to your VM. Since your guest VM recognizes USB devices and since the desktop resizes, it sounds like guest additions and the Virtualbox Essentials Pack have been installed.
Now to get shared folders between the host and the guest, do the following:
1) Create a folder on your host machine that you want to share with your VM.
2) With your VM powered off, go to the VirtualBox settings of your VM.
3) Go to the Shared folders section of those settings.
3) For Machine Folders, add a shared folder pointing to the folder you created on your host machine, and set it to Auto-mount.
4) Start your VM.
5) After the reboot, within the VM, go to the User Manager (Menu->Settings->User Manager).
6) Add your user account to the vboxsf user group (ie. for your user account, put a check mark next to vboxsf).
7) Restart your VM.
The shared folder on the VM will be under the /media parent folder. You can create a test document there and see it show under the folder you created on your host machine.
Same directions are in this video with one exception...the video producer added the user account to the vboxsf group using the terminal instead of the user manager.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TcrfrVNNGMU
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