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Re: VirtualBox: sharing files between the host and guest OS



On 27/07/11 06:26, Jason Hsu wrote:
> The little detail I missed: For some reason, you cannot use "share" as the name of the folder.  I changed the name of the folder in the host OS from "share" to "guest", updated the mount command and the Devices->Shared Folders setup, and the file sharing now works.
> 

You can't have space in the shared folder name either.
Also, under the Shared Folder setting in VirtualBox Manager you can set
"automount", which is a feature I only noticed recently.

Cheers

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