To access the folder your hosts have to talk afp, smb (or nfs - which has to be set up seperately) of course. If you attach the guest's network adapter to the Bridged network > (Host's) Ethernet adapter and configure the guest's Ethernet adapter with a (unique) IP of the 192.168.0.0/24 network, the shared folder of the guest is visible for all hosts and virtual hosts in the 192.168.0.0/24 network. an Ethernet adapter) has an IP in the network 192.168.0.0/24. Let's assume the host system's only physical network interface (e.g. The protocol can be chosen by hitting the 'Options' button.ĭepending on your host system you can also configure a shared folder there. If the default public user folder is not sufficient, add another folder and determine user permissions. Instead share a folder in the OS X/macOS guest system by enabling 'File Sharing' in System Preferences > Sharing > File Sharing. The additions can't be installed in a OS X/macOS guest. What happens in the guest is this : there is indeed a `/media/sf_downloads` directory present as it should, but Code: Select all Expand view Collapse view ls /media/sf_downloads returns an empty result, when there are actually several files in the host `Downloads` directory.AFAIK the shared folder feature of VirtualBox only works with the VirtualBox guest additions. So, after rebooting my guest, my Shared Folder should now be ready to use, right ?

In the VirtualBox 'Shared Folders' menu dialog, I have also defined one item, with 'Access' set to 'Full', 'AutoMount' to 'Yes' and left the 'At' field blank. I have also successfully installed Guest Additions (in the guest shell, the command Code: Select all Expand view Collapse view lsmod |grep vboxguest returns Code: Select all Expand view Collapse view vboxguest 45056 7 vboxsf which is of the expected form).

I have a working Ubuntu 22.04 LTS guest on my Mojave 10.14.6 Mac host. Today, with a newer MacOS and a more recent Ubuntu, I am encountering similar but distinct problems, and the older (and useful) advice I got here no longer seems to apply, hence this new topic. Four years ago, I had trouble with Guest additions & Shared Folders an Ubuntu guest on my High Sierra Mac, and I asked around a dozen of topics about this issues in this forum.

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