Also select Auto-mount and click OK (do not select Read-only unless you do not want to be able to edit the files & folders on the virtual machine side).Ģ) Click OK one more time to save the settings.ġ) Once you have set up your shared folder, the next step is to install the VirtualBox Guest Additions on the Windows virtual machine so that the virtual machine is able to see the shared folder that is set up on the Mac.

For the Folder Path select the folder you want to share (from the dropdown click Other and select the folder). Then click on the plus sign on the folder toward the right. To do this, click on the virtual machine and click on top on Settings -> Shared Folders. Set up VirtualBox to use the shared folderġ) Then, set up the shared folder on VirtualBox so that the Windows virtual machine can see it. In this example, I will create a folder called “Folder to share” to do this.

Use a shared folderįirst, you need to either create a folder or use an existing folder to share files & folders on VirtualBox. If you do not know how to install Windows on Mac, here is my detailed post explaining how to do it. The VirtualBox Guest Additions will need to be installed on the virtual machine in order to share files & folders. In this article I am using a Mac as my host machine and a Windows computer as my virtual machine. In the following example Windows XP (TinyXP) is being used to connect to VirtualBox on Mac OS X Mountain Lion.To share files & folders on VirtualBox we will use a shared folder.

Connecting to a Shared Folder with VirtualBox and Windows XP is easy.

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