Shared file settings between Linux virtual machines and hosts in VirtualBox

Set shared file path Click Virtual machine settings-Select shared Folder

(Figure 1 Setting up a shared folder)

Set the shared folder path

• 1 Select Path
• 2 fill in the Custom share name (you need to correspond to the Mount Path later)
• 3 Setting up automatic mount/fixed assignment

(Figure 2 Setting the shared File path property)

Install the VirtualBox Enhancement tool to install the required packages first

Execute the following command:

install -y gcc gcc-devel gcc-c++ gcc-c++-devel make kernel kernel-devel

After the installation is complete, restart the virtual machine:

shutdown -r now

Installing the VirtualBox enhancement tool

Click Settings-click Install enhancements ...

(Figure 3 Click Settings)

Automate installation or go to directory/media/vboxadditions_5.1.2_108956, execute commands

./VBoxLinuxAddtion.run

Get output content

[[Email protected]Vboxadditions_5.1.2_108956]#./Vboxlinuxadditions.runVerifying Archive Integrity ...All good.UncompressingVirtualBox5.1.2GuestAdditions forLinux...........VirtualBoxGuestAdditions InstallerRemoving installed version5.1.2 ofVirtualBoxGuestAdditions...vboxadd.sh:StoppingVirtualBoxAdditions.vboxadd-service.sh:StoppingVirtualBoxGuest addition service.  Copying Additional installer modules ... installing additional modules ... vboxadd.sh: Building Guest Additions kernel modules.vboxadd.sh:  Should restart your guest to make sure the new modules is actually used.vboxadd.sh: starting the VirtualBox C10>guest additions.  Need to restart the Windows System (or just restart the guest system) to enable the guest Ad Ditions.               

Installation is successful!

Mount Shared Folders

Switch to the root user input mount command:

/home/xingoo/shared

Note the format is

sudo mount -t vboxsf 共享文件夹名称（在设置页面设置的） 挂载的目录

Then go into the/home/xingoo/shared and you'll see the files in Windows

(Figure 4 Windows files)

[Email protected] shared]#lltotal 337516-rwxrwxrwx. 1 root root 149599799 Aug 15 21< Span class= "Hljs-selector-pseudo" >:29 apache-hive-2 .1.0-bin . Tar.gz-rwxrwxrwx. 1 root root 196015975 aug 21:31  Hadoop-2.6.4 .tar.gz       

Other use Tips

If the host is a copy of the content that Windows often needs to go back and forth, you can open the shared clipboard by:

设备-->共享粘贴板-->双向

Shared file settings between Linux virtual machines and hosts in VirtualBox