Wednesday, December 8, 2010

10.10 VirtualBox Shared Folder

1) In host OS specify folder and share name (ie., XYZ_SHARE)
2) login to the guest OS Ubuntu 10.10 x64
3) Run the following commands:


sudo mkdir /mnt/C8
sudo mount -t vboxsf -o uid=1000,gid=1000 C8 /mnt/C8

Done!


Automatic Mount... make sure to have dir

sudo mkdir /mnt/C8
sudo nano /etc/fstab

Add this line at the end of the file.

C8      /mnt/C8 vboxsf  rw,uid=1000,gid=1000,auto,exec  0       0

Note, use TAB between fields.

Let's mount it now!!
sudo mount -a

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