This will install all the drivers needed to use the shared folder on your Windows virtual machine. Double click on it).ĥ) Then follow the instructions on the screen (click Yes, Next, Install…). Click on the popup.Ĥ) If the popup does not display, click on the file explorer (folder at the bottom) and click on This PC or search for This PC in the search bar at the bottom (you will see the CD Drive VirtualBox Guest Additions there under Devices and drives. This will load the drivers on the CD drive of your virtual machine.ģ) Then it will display a popup on the right at the bottom. Then click on Devices -> Insert Guest Additions CD image. To do this, first select the virtual machine in VirtualBox and either double click on it or click on Start at the top to start the virtual machine.Ģ) Once the Windows virtual machine has been started, move your mouse to the top of the screen to display the menu. Also select Auto-mount and click OK (do not select Read-only unless you do not want to be able to edit the files & folders on the virtual machine side).Ģ) Click OK one more time to save the settings.ġ) Once you have set up your shared folder, the next step is to install the VirtualBox Guest Additions on the Windows virtual machine so that the virtual machine is able to see the shared folder that is set up on the Mac. For the Folder Path select the folder you want to share (from the dropdown click Other and select the folder). Then click on the plus sign on the folder toward the right. To do this, click on the virtual machine and click on top on Settings -> Shared Folders. Set up VirtualBox to use the shared folderġ) Then, set up the shared folder on VirtualBox so that the Windows virtual machine can see it. In this example, I will create a folder called “Folder to share” to do this. Use a shared folderįirst, you need to either create a folder or use an existing folder to share files & folders on VirtualBox. If you do not know how to install Windows on Mac, here is my detailed post explaining how to do it. The VirtualBox Guest Additions will need to be installed on the virtual machine in order to share files & folders.

In this article I am using a Mac as my host machine and a Windows computer as my virtual machine. To share files & folders on VirtualBox we will use a shared folder.

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