To confirm the change, use get: sudo VBoxControl guestproperty get /VirtualBox/GuestAdd/SharedFolders/MountDir Use the following command to set the VirtualBox shared folder guestproperty: sudo VBoxControl guestproperty set /VirtualBox/GuestAdd/SharedFolders/MountDir /home/your_username/ May require reboot.įor example, to change the mount point from /media/sf_. You can change where the folder is mounted by using the VBoxControl command, Which then requires root login for the following commands. It might be found in the folder /media/sf_DATA and may be accessible only by root, VirtualBox may auto-mount the share, but not where expected. Sudo mount -t vboxsf -o uid=1000,gid=1000 DATA /home/your_username/myshare If you are required to login as root for that, you might enter similarly : mkdir /home/your_username/myshare Vboxsf stand for mount type of "VirtualBox shared folder". (Remember that there were users for whom this did not work.) cd ~ Here one specifies the mount point of the share. To check that the user is not already in the vboxsf group, use the id command. You might also be required to add your user to the group vboxsf by one of: sudo usermod -a -G vboxsf your_username You must install Guest Additions in the guest, then reboot it. Unfortunately, the answers differ, although very highly upvoted, so seems to depend How to access a shared folder in VirtualBox?.
(closed as belonging to Super User, but never migrated. How to mount a VirtualBox shared folder?.There are a few very highly upvoted answers in the following posts: Not be enough to make it appear inside the guest, or it may appear in unexpected You are missing some steps - defining the share in VirtualBox could possibly
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