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13. October 2007

Sharing folders with VirtualBox
Linux (wiki) - urs @ 21:14:14

The host system is a Linux based OS, the guest system - running within VirtualBox - is a Windows based OS. The challange was to share a common folder. The documentation was pretty clear about it; but still it did not work. Now it does. In the guest system, a simple

c:\>net use x: \\vboxsvr\myshare

did the job [1]. There is no need subsitute vboxsvr with 10.0.2.2 or 192.168.0.2 or something like that. myshare is the name of the shared folder located on the host system.

[1] http://www.virtualbox.org/ticket/313