Once a session has been created, you will see the filesystems visible on the both left side and the right side.

If you have not setup username and password for your guest OS, then you should create a username and password before this can work.

Enter the login details for any user that has access to local partitions.

In the File Manager window, click on the New Session button in the toolbar.

When the guest OS is running, select Machine → File Manager from the menubar.

Launch VirtualBox and run any of your guest operating systems.

Here is how you can use the File Manager feature in VirtualBox to transfer files between the guest OS and the host OS: We tested it to be working flawlessly with Windows 10 host OS, and Windows 10 guest OS. Through the use of the file manager in VirtualBox, you can directly access all the partitions of the both systems and transfer files or folders quickly. It is much easier than using the shared files/folders approach of sharing the files between the guest and host systems. Log out and back in, everything should work fine now.The new version 6.0 of Oracle VM VirtualBox comes with a new feature called File Manager using which you can transfer files between the guest OS and the host OS.

There is only one more step add any user in your guest system that needs access to the folder to the group vboxsf: sudo adduser $USER vboxsf Job Done the shared folder appears on you guest machine as /media/sf_Vboxshare Then, go into settings for your virtual machine, select shared folders then the plus icon to create a shared folder and fill in the details set it to auto mount. I've created one called VboxShare in my home directory.įirst, make sure that your virtual machine is powered off. Next step create a folder on your host machine as as share area I do not believe its possible to share files between the host and the guest without installing the extension pack first though I could be wrong on this.Ĭheck that the version of Virtualbox you have.

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