Without installing this software, your guest will not be able to recognize the necessary vboxsf file system, thus rendering your guest/host unable to share folders. SEE: Virtualization Policy (Tech Pro Research) Installing the Guest Additionsįirst, you must install the Guest Additions. Although there are a few steps involved, it doesn’t take long to set up. VirtualBox has the ability to share folders between guest and host to make moving files back and forth much more efficient. When you can’t figure that out, you wind up having to use Dropbox or some other third-party solution. If you use VirtualBox in your data center, you’ve probably run into a situation where you needed to move a file from guest to host or vice versa. For more info, visit our Terms of Use page. This may influence how and where their products appear on our site, but vendors cannot pay to influence the content of our reviews. We may be compensated by vendors who appear on this page through methods such as affiliate links or sponsored partnerships.
The relevant partition here is /dev/sda3.How to share folders between guest and host in VirtualBoxĭata center managers, add this VirtualBox efficiency tip to your bag of tricks by simply following the steps to set up shared folders between VirtualBox host and guest. dev/sda3 ntfs OS (not mounted) xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx dev/sda2 ntfs RECOVERY (not mounted) xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx dev/sda1 vfat DellUtility (not mounted) xxxx-xxxx dev/sdb8 ext4 /big xxxxxxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxxxxxxxxxx dev/sdb7 swap xxxxxxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxxxxxxxxxx dev/sdb3 ext4 / xxxxxxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxxxxxxxxxx dev/loop6 vfat FAT32 II /cxxx/DOSE xxxx-xxxx dev/loop5 vfat FAT32 /cxxx/DOSD xxxx-xxxx dev/loop4 xfs /nxxxxx xxxxxxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxxxxxxxxxx dev/loop2 vfat FAT16 10K /cxxx/DOS xxxx-xxxx
dev/loop0 ext2 /pxxx/lin xxxxxxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxxxxxxxxxx
As I have already said, in VB, shared folders mount as network drives and VMware looks the same, so there is no mounting on 'top of an existing drive letter', if you look at my previous screenshot you will see the shared folder is mounted as Z: in the win7 VM.Ĭode: Select all device fs_type label mount point UUID You can't run win NT and mint simultaneously so the question of open files is irrelevant. Just share the folder where your NT partition is mounting, e.g. Shared folders in VMware, doesn't look too different to VB: Is it even possible to mount a shared folder on top of an existing drive letter, in this case "C:"?ĭon't use VMware so can't comment, most users on this forum use virtualbox, you might consider switching, you'll get more help here. As for shared folders, I don't know how that would work, when the partition in question is the *boot* drive of Windows, so it will have multiple open files on this filesystem by the time the shared folder is mounted.
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