You’ll need the latest version of VirtualBox (4.3.10) with Guest Additions installed in Ubuntu.
- With the Virtual Machine powered off and selected in VirtualBox, go to:
Machine > Settings … > Shared Folders - For “Folder Path”, click the icon to browse for the folder you want to share.
- For “Folder Name”, enter a name to describe the share.
- Click “OK” and start the virtual machine again.
- Create a mount point which is basically an empty folder.
- Fire up the terminal and type:
sudo mount -t vboxsf folder_name path_to_mount_point
folder_name is the name you typed in earlier to describe the share - You should be able to browse the shared folder now.
In case of difficulties mounting the same, such as the following error:
mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on mydata,
missing codepage or helper program, or other error
(for several filesystems (e.g. nfs, cifs) you might
need a /sbin/mount.<type> helper program)
In some cases useful info is found in syslog - try
dmesg | tail or so
perform the following steps:
sudo rm /sbin/mount.vboxsf
sudo ln -s /opt/VBoxGuestAdditions-4.3.10/lib/VBoxGuestAdditions/mount.vboxsf /sbin/mount.vboxsf