Contents • • • • • • • • • Introduction This explains how to share files and folders (directories) between host and guest. (Files are shared over a network, in other words, you access remote files. How do I enable the shared clipboard in VirtualBox? Shared Clipboard; To install the Guest Additions. And ubuntu 16.06 guest. For virtual machines, the network between host and guest is virtual since they are on the same real machine. But the steps you take are similar to setting up file sharing over real networks.) Required: Virtualbox Guest Additions Before sharing folders, you must install Guest Additions. For instructions on how to do this, see. Creating a shared folder • Create a folder on the Host computer (ubuntu) that you would like to share, for example ~/share • Boot the Guest operating system in. • Select Devices -> Shared Folders. • Choose the 'Add' button. • Select ~/share • Optionally select the 'Make permanent' option Prepare the folder Linux With a shared folder named share, as above, the folder can be mounted as the directory ~/host with the command sudo mount -t vboxsf -o uid=$UID,gid=$(id -g) share ~/host Windows On the Windows Guest, run net use x: vboxsvr share Now anything placed in this folder should be visible from the host in the ~/share folder. Troubleshooting This can be done more generically with the following: sharename='whatever.you.want.to.call.it'; sudo mkdir /mnt/$sharename sudo chmod 777 /mnt/$sharename sudo mount -t vboxsf -o uid=1000,gid=1000 $sharename /mnt/$sharename ln -s /mnt/$sharename $HOME/Desktop/$sharename For the above command if you get the following error: mount: unknown filesystem type 'vboxsf' Then just change the vboxsf to vbox fs If you want to have it mount automatically upon each boot, put the mount command in /etc/rc.local Debian distros (e.g. Ubuntu 10.04 and later) See Section 4.4 'Folder Sharing' in the documentation. Note: if you want to mount the directory as owned and writable only by root, omit the -o uid=1000,gid=1000 option to the mount command /sbin/mount.vboxsf: mounting failed with the error: Protocol error The above error could be one of the following. The name was not valid Make sure you specified the right name on the bash commands. If the guest machine is expecting 'share' (as we did in the Prepare Host section) and you wrote sharename='donotshare' sudo mkdir /mnt/$sharename sudo chmod 777 /mnt/$sharename sudo mount -t vboxsf -o uid=1000,gid=1000 $sharename /mnt/$sharename ln -s /mnt/$sharename $HOME/Desktop/$sharename it will not work. Ubuntu 10.04 host Note: Running on Ubuntu 10.04 host and Mint 14 as virtual system, the system would not accept a ~/share. It complained that it was not an absolute address. I entered /home/jim/share and it worked fine. • Create a folder on the Host computer (ubuntu) that you would like to share, for example ~/share • Boot the Guest operating system in. • Select Devices -> Shared Folders. • Choose the 'Add' button. • Select ' /home//share' for Folder Path • Select 'share' for Folder Name • Optionally select the 'Make permanent' option. ![]() Contents • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • This guide explains some of the ways in which Ubuntu Linux can be installed to your desktop or laptop computer. It concentrates on installing Ubuntu alongside a pre-existing version Windows so that, each time you start the computer, you can choose which operating system you want to use. It is community created documentation, the work of many hands and minds convinced by their own experience that Linux is a superior operating system and deserves to be widely used. The official guide covers a complete list of alternative installation methods for Ubuntu. At present (March 2018), however, it does not explain some of the very important preliminary steps if you want to install Ubuntu alongside Windows. We will initially assume that your computer has an standard optical drive that can read and write DVD disks. Further along, we will explain how to work with USB drives if the system has no DVD drive. Hardware Requirements Ubuntu has been designed keeping in mind the most common hardware, so it is highly likely that Ubuntu will work on your machine without any problem. Nonetheless, you should check if your hardware works with Ubuntu and meets the minimum system requirements.
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