Click Map network drive button on the explorer tool bar to launch the Map network drive wizard. If you can’t see the shared folder in the explorer under Networked Location category, follow the next step as well.ĥ.
Now open the explorer in virtual machine. Once added, you can set the read-only permission to the shared folder so that the guest OS (virtual machine) user will not be able to write to the added folder. Click on Add shared folders button to browse to the folder (present on the host machine) that you want to share with the virtual machine. Click Devices under menu and then select Share folders option to open Share Folders dialog-box.ģ. Run the virtual machine (VM) under VirtualBox.Ģ. Now you can turn your VM off or simply restart it without lose the sharing.Method 1: To share folders between Windows 7 /Vista guest OS and host machine.ġ. Next, press CTRL + X to exit nano editor.
host:/shared /mnt/hgfs/shared fuse.vmhgfs-fuse defaults,allow_other,uid=1000 0 0Īfter edit it, press CTRL + O simultaneously and press ENTER to confirm the changes. # Use shared folders between VMWare guest and host. If you do not have a section reserved to shared folders, please add this instructions at the end of the file.
In this example, we will use nano editor. You must have administrator permission to edit /etc/fstab. Thus, if you want to persist this change, please follow as instructed below. The procedure instructed above work until the next VM restart. If you have experiencing some issues, please restart your VM and check again if the folder is shared following the above commands. That’s it! It is sharing and you can check it by clicking on Activities > Files > Other locations > Computer or running the commands: $ cd /mnt/hgfs/shared $ ls -lia host:/shared /mnt/hgfs/shared -o allow_other -o uid=1000 Now, let’s share the ‘shared’ directory we just created. Thus, open your terminal in order to create a directory called ‘shared’ and execute the following command. vmware-hgfsclientĪfter that, create a directory inside /mnt/hgfs. In order to confirm if your local selected folder was really shared, run the below command and check if your folder will be listed.
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