Wednesday, April 10, 2013

Shared Folders on VBox

To share a folder between the host and the guest in VBox...
 
1. Go to Settings/Devices > Shared Folders > Add a new Machine Folder


 
(Recommended) If you would like to auto-mount this shared folder, click on Auto-mount and Make Permanent
 
 
2. At this point restart the VM for the shared folder to get auto-mounted:

[oracle@localhost ~]$ df -k
Filesystem           1K-blocks      Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/hda1             10504124   2387488   7574444  24% /
/dev/hdb1             12184796   7522868   4032988  66% /home
tmpfs                  1815936    290720   1525216  17% /dev/shm
/dev/mapper/vg00-apps--fs
                       9805144    153084   9153988   2% /u01
Shared_VM_ODI12c     224776188 147399704  77376484  66% /media/sf_Shared_VM_ODI12c


3. On the Guest, login as root, and add 'oracle' user to the vboxsf group so that the user has access to the shared file system:

root# /usr/sbin/usermod -G vboxsf -a oracle

4. Now restart the VM to inherit the vboxsf group privs, and you should be able to cd into the shared folder:

[oracle@localhost sf_temp_share]$ id
uid=500(oracle) gid=500(oracle) groups=500(oracle),54323(davfs2),54324(vboxsf)
 
THERE IS NO NEED TO DO 'mount -t vboxsf shared_folder /shared_folder' -since we auto-mounted the file system.
 

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