One guide is here Īlso, in new virtual box - 4.3.20 I guess, they have this new feature of drag and drop where you can just drag files and folders to your virtual machine just by dragging. We make a directory to mount the Guest Additions CD.
Go to Devices tab and click Insert Guest Additions CD image Step 4) Open up a terminal and install the Guest Additions CD. Step 3) Boot your Ubuntu virtual machine. If any issue, just comment here and I will tell you alternative methods.Īlso, if all of this sounds too geeky, you can do the same thing using the graphical tools. Step 2) Make sure that you have an empty optical drive for your virtual machine. Now you shall be able to access that folder.
Also the root has permission to that folder because its in the group "vboxsf". Just mount the extensions ISO file as a 'virtual' CD. For example, I will change ownership of /remote-dir to my user ' dev ' instead of ' root '. This group "vboxsf" is the group which has read/write permissions to that folder. If you are still facing permission denied error, move to next step Solution 4 :- ownership issues (directory should be owned by user) -> Login to your remote system (server2) -> Change ownership of your remote directory for your user. Since your host is Windows, symlinks are not supported. Currently only Linux and Solaris Guest Additions support symlinks. a Mac, Linux or Solaris host is required). The issue is that your user "mat" is not in the same group as "vboxsf". Starting with version 4.0, VirtualBox shared folders also support symbolic links (symlinks), under the following conditions: The host operating system must support symlinks (i.e.