![]() ![]() Workstation Pro selects the drive letter. This directory contains all of the shared folders that you enable. (Optional) To map a drive to the Shared Folders directory, select Map as a network drive in Windows guests. On the Options tab, select Shared Folders. ![]() I could see, work with and permanently map them. Select the virtual machine and select VM > Settings. Since everything is hard to find in Win10 settings, here's what I mean:ītw: My checkbox on the shared folders look like so:ītw: Before I had named them Documents and Pictures, perhaps that was too generic and caused trouble, perhaps not. I turned off the windows firewall, suddenly I could see my shared drives! (I then turned it on again. Not related, but kinda proof that some features of GuestAddition can somehow get swept away, perhaps by further Win10 Updates or such. And install the VBoxWindowsAdditions-amd64.exe there.Īlso another nasty problem VirtualBox problem of mine instantly went away. Otherwise, dragging would not be possible). ![]() (Kinda proof that I had pre-existing guest additions, if I think about it. if you like), and drag that folder onto your guest desktop. Hint 2: If you are to lazy to re-add a CD Drive with all the rebooting, you can unpack that iso in your (Ubuntu) Host for example (remove anything x86/OS2/sun. ![]() iso can directly be downloaded here (precisely match your virtual box version, as shown in the about menu) Step 4 VirtualBox will open a window 'Shared Folders'. Step 3 Click on 'Devices' tab provided on the VM VirtualBox taskbar and select 'Shared Folders' from the drop-down list. Step 2 Start your Guest OS in which you want to share drives/folders and files contained in them. Install matching Guest Additions again (I did so earlier in setup, well.) Step 1 Run your Host OS and launch VM VirtualBox. Things I did (I cannot regress, if one of them is superficious) Well, I had the same issue, mounting my host Documents and Pictures folder. ![]()
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