Sharing VirtualBox folders

You have Ubuntu running in Windows and you want to share a windows folder with Ubuntu. Do the following:

Make sure you have installed the Guest Additions

Configure the shared folder in my VirtualBox. Click menu option "Devices->Shared Folders" to configure the sharing

This has gotten much easier now, VirtualBox will just mount the folder; however, you need to make sure your user is part of the vboxsf group; otherwise, you will need to be root in order to copy or access the files, use the following command:

sudo usermod -G vboxsf -a jboss1

Older Instructions

Open terminal and created a directory called share under "mnt" so it looks as “/mnt/share”. This required "admin" privileges, and then run the following command.

sudo mount -t vboxsf sharename /mnt/share

There is a bug with VirtualBox 4.3.10 and mounting, the following commands will fix, after you mount the Guest Additions

$ cd /sbin
$ sudo rm mount.vboxsf
$ ln -s /opt/VBoxGuestAdditions-4.3.10/lib/VBoxGuestAdditions/mount.vboxsfsudo usermod -G vboxsf -a jboss1