Hunter Scott

How to mount shared folder in virtualbox

// July 20th, 2010 // Uncategorized

This is a quick little post that shows how to mount a shared folder in a linux guest from a windows host in virtualbox. Here’s the two commands to run:
$ mkdir /home/username/share
$ sudo mount -t vboxsf share /home/username/share
where share is the name of the shared folder (click the folder icon in the virtualbox window and it’ll tell you the share name and the path.