Wednesday 12 February 2014

How to mount Windows 7 folder into guest Ubuntu 12.04 directory




Well,Hope you doing well.

When you are working on VM Box and Window machine simultaneously then usually you do share some stuff between Window and Virtual Box like some project file or other files/directroy which are reside in your Window machine .
Sometime you upload files intoVMBox using some external software which is tedious task.

Here, do some easy step's that make your easier to switch/mount window file into VMBox or vice-verse.


Step 1.

Open VM Virtualbox and Click on setting, select "Shared Folder" from left panel and add share folder to which you want to share into VM Box.At last ok with done.

Here Share folder name is D:\Shared



Steps-2: (VM Box Ubuntu Side )


Open a terminal and run following command one by one

$ sudo apt-get install dkms

Need to reboot your VM Virtaul Box then
$ sudo /sbin/reboot   

$sudo apt-get install virtualbox-ose-guest-x11

 Create a shared folder under /usr/work/ directory.


$mkdir shared_work

$sudo mount -t vboxsf Shared ./shared_work



I hope this stuff will help you.
Thanks
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