When you work with virtual machines, sooner or later you run into a situation where a file resides on the host OS and you want to access it on the guest OS, or the other way around. The guest operating system is the one you run inside a VirtualBox virtual machine. With the host operating system I mean the operating system, where you installed the VirtualBox program itself. As the name implies, a shared folder enables file sharing between the host and the guest operating systems. VirtualBox comes with a feature called shared folders.
In this article you’ll learn how to configure and mount a shared folder on your Linux based VirtualBox virtual machine. Once configured, you can easily exchange files between the host and guest OS. Inside your VirtualBox virtual machine you can then mount this shared folder. Click OK.Ever needed to access a file inside your virtual machine, which resides on your host operating system? With the help of VirtualBox’s shared folders feature, you can select a folder on your host OS to share. Select Bidirectional option under Shared Clipboard. Select the vm from the list on the left hand side panel of the Oracle VM VirtualBox Manager and open the Settings window. You can follow the below steps to enable this option.Ġ1. You need to copy text from the host machine to guest and vice versa. Copy and paste clipboard between host and guest Now you can access Virtualbox using Ubuntu Unity Dash. Finally, install Virtualbox (current version is 5.1) $sudo apt-get install virtualbox-5.1 Update software sources (as usual) $sudo apt-get updateĠ5. Download and add the key $wget $sudo apt-key add oracle_vbox_2016.ascĠ4. Add the following and save the file $deb xenial contribĠ3. With your favorite editor (nano in my case), create the file $sudo nano /etc/apt//virtualbox.listĠ2.
Additionally you will find the installation steps as well. Following examples were tested with a Ubuntu 16.04 LTS host and guest machines only. In this post I will describe the solutions for some of the issues I faced when I used VirtualBox for the first time.
File sharing in Oracle VirtualBox for Ubuntu 16.04 LTSįor those who are new to Oracle VirtualBox may find it difficult to get going with some of the basic stuff like file sharing.
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