
What you need is to add your user 'mat' to the same group. Now look in your Ubuntu Desktop and you will see a icon called "shared" - you will see the files containe din the windows folder you provided in step four. Also the root has permission to that folder because its in the group 'vboxsf'. > Mount Point: (leave it blank, if you leave it blank, the system will automatically add the shared folder in your ubuntu desktop)Ħ. > Auto-mount (check this so everytime you boot up your guest ubuntu machine it mounts the folder)

> Folder Path: Provide the PATH location in your host machine. Populate the following configuration settings:

Go to the virtual machine you want to share folders withĤ. In the configuration details at the bottom, you will see a line called Shared Folders. The first thing you MUST do is install ' Guest Additions', if you dont know how to do this, just go to the Devices menu and select " Insert Guest Additions CD Image" - Then reboot the machine and follow these instructions step by step:ġ. VirtualBox Share Host Folder Ubuntu Guest Go to Devices menu > Shared Folders > Shared Folder Settings Select folder path of Host to be shared. First, when you launch UTM, go to the VM youd like to share files with. this is the procedure to setup your shared folders in virtualbox.

Today I will show you how to setup your shared folders feature in virtuabox from a windows computer to a linux ubuntu virtual machine guest. The regular way of getting access to the files now, is to allow VirtualBox to automount the shared folder (which will make it show up under /media/sfdirectoryname) and then to add your regular Ubuntu user to the vboxsf group (as root ).
