Comments on: How to share files with VirtualBox between Mac and Windows

By: pyramind

pyramind — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 22:19:37 +0000

For those who can’t get it working: You almost always need to install guest additions TWICE to get this working. (I did an uninstall, reboot and reinstall and voila! it worked)

See this topic:
http://forums.virtualbox.org/viewtopic.php?t=8181

By: Tim

Tim — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 09:21:23 +0000

Thanks for the post! It’s helpful. I kept trying \\vboxsvr\shared in explorer’s address bar but explorer couldn’t find the shared folder. It’s kinda weird that net use from the command line works.

cheers!

By: Ugur

Ugur — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 08:43:12 +0000

Hey guys, thanks for pointing these out. I personally didn’t have any problem when I set it up; but maybe in some cases these cause problem. I hope it works fine for all at the moment.

By: david

david — Sun, 27 Jul 2008 09:15:56 +0000

How do you do this with a Vista host and an Ubuntu guest? I don’t want to have to mount the shared folder everytime I boot Ubuntu.

By: Alexander Rubino

Alexander Rubino — Sat, 26 Jul 2008 18:35:29 +0000

Hi,

Two things.

First to amin: i made it work already. I put the folder i wanted to share in my home folder. You were right about the hide file extensions. You have to uncheck that box in the folder options. I also created the .bat file in the windows Desktop. From that it should work fine.

To Allan: to install the guest additions you have to be running windows virtual machine. While it’s running go to mac menu for VirtualBox. There go to Devices and then to install guest aditions. By now you haven’t installed the guest aditions yet. What you just did it’s to create an image in the guest SO, in this case Windows. In windows open My computer and you will see a cd/dvd drive mounted. Click on it and you will start a wizard to install the guest adition

That’s it, that’s all

By: Alexander Rubino

Alexander Rubino — Sat, 26 Jul 2008 18:10:45 +0000

Hey, nice of you to give some tips about sharing files. But amin was right to say that information is missing. I wasn’t able to share my folders yet. I guess that is because the filepaths are unclear. So I ask Where do i have to create the folder i want to share?

Thanks

By: amin

amin — Sat, 26 Jul 2008 04:57:11 +0000

your directions are unclear with regard to filepath. I did this and I dont see my mac shared folder on windows at all???wtf?

also you totally didnt even mention to make sure “hide file extensions” is unchecked in windows.

By: Ugur

Ugur — Sun, 15 Jun 2008 08:49:26 +0000

It shows up after you start the VM :)

By: Allan

Allan — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 23:05:41 +0000

I’m trying to install additions in VirtualBox 1.6.2. Your blog - and many others state, “Go to “Devices->Install Guest Additions””

Sounds simple, but - maybe I’m stupid. I just don’t see a “Devices” menu option anywhere. What the heck is going on?!