{"id":6568,"date":"2019-08-28T16:32:03","date_gmt":"2019-08-28T20:32:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/scs\/?page_id=6568"},"modified":"2026-06-02T14:59:29","modified_gmt":"2026-06-02T18:59:29","slug":"creating-a-shared-folder-in-virtualbox","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/scs\/tech-support\/troubleshooting-guides\/creating-a-shared-folder-in-virtualbox\/","title":{"rendered":"Creating a Shared Folder in VirtualBox"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<section class=\"w-screen px-6 cu-section cu-section--white ml-offset-center md:px-8 lg:px-14\">\n    <div class=\"space-y-6 cu-max-w-child-5xl  md:space-y-10 cu-prose-first-last\">\n\n            <div class=\"cu-textmedia flex flex-col lg:flex-row mx-auto gap-6 md:gap-10 my-6 md:my-12 first:mt-0 max-w-5xl\">\n        <div class=\"justify-start cu-textmedia-content cu-prose-first-last\" style=\"flex: 0 0 100%;\">\n            <header class=\"font-light prose-xl cu-pageheader md:prose-2xl cu-component-updated cu-prose-first-last\">\n                                    <h1 class=\"cu-prose-first-last font-semibold !mt-2 mb-4 md:mb-6 relative after:absolute after:h-px after:bottom-0 after:bg-cu-red after:left-px text-3xl md:text-4xl lg:text-5xl lg:leading-[3.5rem] pb-5 after:w-10 text-cu-black-700 not-prose\">\n                        Creating a Shared Folder in VirtualBox\n                    <\/h1>\n                \n                                \n                            <\/header>\n\n                    <\/div>\n\n            <\/div>\n\n    <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n<h2 id=\"creating-a-permanently-shared-folder-in-virtualbox\" class=\"wp-block-heading\">Creating a Permanently Shared Folder in VirtualBox<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>This guide shows you how to set up a folder which will be shared between your host machine and your guest machine. For more information on transferring files between virtual machines, <a href=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/scs\/technical-support\/virtual-machines\/transferring-files-to-and-from-virtual-machines\/\">click here<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 id=\"setting-up-the-shared-folder\" class=\"wp-block-heading\">Setting Up the Shared Folder<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Select the guest machine you wish to share files with<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Click <em>Settings > Shared Folders<\/em><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Right-click and select <em>Add Shared Folder <\/em>and use the following settings:<br><br><blockquote><p><strong>Folder Path:<\/strong> <em>Click the dropdown arrow, select <strong>Other<\/strong>, and navigate to the folder you would like to share<\/em><br><br><strong>Folder Name:<\/strong> <em>Anything to identify it on the guest machine<\/em><br><br><strong>Read-Only:<\/strong> Unchecked <em>(Checked, if you are exclusively pulling files <strong>from the host<\/strong>)<br><br><strong>Auto-Mount:<\/strong> Checked<br><br><strong>Mount Point:<\/strong> <em>Leave blank<\/em> <\/em><\/p><\/blockquote><br><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Click <em>OK<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Creating a Permanently Shared Folder in VirtualBox This guide shows you how to set up a folder which will be shared between your host machine and your guest machine. For more information on transferring files between virtual machines, click here. Setting Up the Shared Folder<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":6556,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_cu_dining_location_slug":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"cu_page_type":[],"class_list":["post-6568","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":{"cu_post_thumbnail":false},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/scs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6568","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/scs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/scs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/scs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/scs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6568"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/scs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6568\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6571,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/scs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6568\/revisions\/6571"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/scs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6556"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/scs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6568"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"cu_page_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/scs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_page_type?post=6568"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}