In the resulting popup ( Figure A), click the Folder Path drop-down and select Other.įigure A Creating your shared folder in VirtualBox 6.1. From the Settings window, select Shared Folders. With this folder created (or chosen), go back to your VM and select Settings. Open a terminal window and issue the command: Let’s create a folder in /home/USER/ named SHARED (Where USER is the same user who runs VirtualBox). How to define the shared folder in the guestīefore we do anything with the guest, we need to either choose a folder on the host or create one.
I’ll be demonstrating with a Fedora guest and a Pop!_OS host, but the process should be the same, no matter which combination you use. To make this work, you’ll need a working instance of VirtualBox 6.1 and a guest VM already created. SEE: Kubernetes: A cheat sheet (free PDF) (TechRepublic) What you’ll need Let me show you how to do so in VirtualBox 6.1. No matter how you use these shared folders, you have to know how to create them first. In fact, this is a solid way to share a folder with multiple guests or use it as a way to expand the available storage for your virtual machines.
If you use this tool in your data center, you might find the need to create a shared folder between a host and a guest. It’s free, it’s flexible, and it’s powerful. VirtualBox is a great tool for creating, running, and managing virtual machines. The next SQL Server: Interview with Asad Khan of Microsoft How to set, change, and recover your MySQL root password How to create a virtual machine in Google Cloud Platform
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