Now you just need to mount the shared folder to the newly created directory using the following command.VirtualBox is a free and most popular virtualization software from Oracle. I created the directory that is going to be mounted to: /mnt/projects

Lastly, you just need to mount the folder. Once everything is finished, reboot the virtual machine: Wait for it to finish and try again with previous command:ĭon’t worry about the FAILED message in the last line, we are running the server version, not the desktop version, so no Window System is required. To fix it, simply do what it asks you to do: Running it the first time I got the following error: Now if you do “ls” on /media/cdrom, you will see the following contents: Mount: block device /dev/sr0 is write-protected, mounting read-only Select Devices -> Install Guest Additions, this will insert an iso image into the CDROM, but we need to mount it manually: Start your guest machine and login as normal. Press the Settings button and choose the folder that you want to share on your host machine, and give appropriate access level:

In this article I will be creating a shared folder within VirtualBox that will link my /Users/ericlin/Projects directory with one on the CentOS box under /mnt/projects.įirstly, within VirtualBox, select the guest machine you wish to contain the shared folder. Luckily VirtualBox supports this, but need a bit of work to get it going. To make my life a bit easier, I want to share my coding folder on Mac Mini with the server in the virtual machine, so that I don’t need to keep syncing files manually. Because the new Mac Mini gives me 16GB of DDR3 RAM, which gives me the power to run my own virtual server machine as my sandbox to develop on. I have recently switched from MacBook Pro to Mac Mini for my development machine and I have also switched from VMWare to VirtualBox simply for the sake of OpenSource.

Virtualbox shared folder in mac guest