

Run following command in Guest machine: sudo mount -t vboxsf -o uid=$UID,gid=$(id -g) /media/sf_images/ġ2. Type the following at the prompt, replacing “” with your username, and press Enter. To do this, press Ctrl + Alt + T to open a Terminal window. Before you can access any shared folders, you must add yourself to the vboxsf group.

When VirtualBox installed the Ubuntu operating system, it added a group called “vboxsf”.

Install dependencies for VirtualBox guest additions: sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install build-essential linux-headers-`uname -r` sudo apt-get install virtualbox-guest-utils virtualbox-guest-dkms You’ll see a folder under /media directory named similarly to the folder you selected to share on your host machine with “sf_” added to the beginning of the name.ġ0.
