Monday, November 1, 2010

Virtualbox XP host to Ubuntu 8.04 guest folder sharing

How to share a forder on XP host to Ubuntu 8.04 guest
  1. On XP guest menu, go to Devices -> Shared Folders
  2. Add a new share (ex. C:\SharedFolder)
  3. On Ubuntu 8.04 guest create a new directory (ex. /home/MountFolder)
  4. mkdir /home/MountFolder
  5. Then, run
  6. mount -t vboxsf SharedFolder /home/MountFolder

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