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Your shared folder is now set-up on the host.

Click the Auto-mount and Make Permanent boxes.

Add your folder: VM_shared_folder, to the Folder Pathbox.

On the right you see a little folder sign with a green plussign on it, click that.

Open Settings and go to the box Shared Folders.

Start virtualbox and select the virtualmachine for which you want to set-up a shared folder.

I use a right mouse click and set this folder to be shared. I call it VM_shared_folder and I have it in the directory: temp at the root of the C:` drive.

Create a folder on your Windows host that you want to use for sharing files.

The first part will be done on your windows host and the second part is inside the virtualmachine. One thing that makes life a lot easier is when we can share files between the Windows host and the linux guest system.īelow you find instructions on how to set-up a shared folder that can be used to transfer files between the host and the guest system and vice versa. We have been working for some time with the biolinux virtualmachine on our Windows laptops. You can install these required tools with the following command.How to set-up a shared folder on a biolinux virtualmachine

Add the User Account to the VBOXSF User Groupīefore proceeding with the following steps, make sure that you have the VirtualBox Guest Additions installed on your Manjaro or Arch Linux virtual machine.

Create a Folder on Your Manjaro/Arch Linux VM.

It’s not difficult, just a slight bit different and I will show you here how to share a windows folder with your Manjaro or Arch based Linux VM in VirtualBox. This is definitely another feature you won't be able to live without when doing some real work with your virtual machines. One of those tasks is sharing a folder from my Windows PC through VirtualBox to my Manjaro Linux virtual machine. Completing tasks in Manjaro can be a bit different than in Ubuntu and other Debian Linux variants. There are many Linux distributions out there and many choose Ubuntu or some variant of it, I’ve chosen Manjaro which is an Arch based Linux. To create a shared folder in VirtualBox, you must create a folder on both the host and guest machines. Select Save my settings for future connections to this virtual machine.

Select the drive that you want to use on the virtual machine and click Ok. I like many others, use a Linux virtual machine in VirtualBox from my Windows PC to do development work. Select the virtual machine that you want to connect to.