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Click on the VirtulBox virtual machine and select Settings from Machine menu tab. Try to enable and start sharing files between VirtualBox and host using the below guide.ġ. The important you must know that these options are VirtualBox advanced options and by default file sharing is not enabled in VirtualBox. Configuring a shared folder from the virtual machine’s settings window and then access from network shares. To do the file sharing between VirtualBox and Host, VirtualBox essentially takes a folder on the host operating system and uses network file sharing to make it accessible inside the virtual machine. VirtualBox allows you to set up “ Shared Folders” that both the host operating system and the guest operating system can access.

Finally add user to vboxsf group ( replace USER_NAME with what printed in last command.To simply share file between VirtualBox and host system just enable VirtualBox file sharing option.

When terminal opens, run command to check your username in case you don’t remember: whoami.

Open a terminal window from system app launcher.

Firstly, start the virtual machine and login.

Here I’m going to do it via a single command: There are a few ways to add an user to a group. All you need to do is add your user into this group. The shared folder belongs to vboxsf group in the guest. You do not have permissions necessary to view the contents of “xxx” Or it prompts permission issue while accessing from the left pane in file manager: GDBus.Error.Failed: Unix process subject does not have uid set. And it pops up an error dialog when you trying to open it:

However, after you created one, the shared folder is marked with cross and lock icons. Shared Folders is an useful feature for file sync between Virtualbox host and guest OSes. Running Ubuntu as virtual machine via VirtualBox? You may encounter permission issue to access the shared folder between host and guest.