Shared folder between MacOSX and Windows on Virtual Box

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I need to set up shared folder   I ve got Mac OSX Yosemite host and clean Win7 x64 on the VirtualBox   In MacOSX  i go to the VirtualBox -  win7 settings -    Shared Folders  -  Add shared folder -  creating folder  Users my name Documents win7 -  Make it permanent -  Click ok   What i should do in Windows then    Thank you

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At first I was stuck trying to figure out out to "insert" the Guest Additions CD image in Windows because I presumed it was a separate download that I would have to mount or somehow attach to the virtual CD drive. But just going through the Mac VirtualBox Devices menu and picking "Insert Guest Additions CD Image..." seemed to do the trick. Nothing to mount, nothing to "insert".

Elsewhere I found that the Guest Additions update was part of the update package, so I guess the new VB found the new GA CD automatically when Windows went looking. I wish I had known that to start.

Also, it appears that when I installed the Guest Additions on my Linked Base machine, it propagated to the other machines that were based on it. Sweet. Only one installation for multiple "machines".

I still haven't found that documented, but it appears to be the case (probably I'm not looking for the right explanation terms because I don't already know the explanation). How that works should probably be a different thread.

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Using a Windows 10 guest  after I performed steps 1 through 3 from  xinampc s answer  I had to open a new File Explorer and navigated to This PC   CD Drive  D   VirtualBox Guest Additions to run VBoxWindowsAdditions  After I ran that and went through the command prompts  Windows rebooted and I was able to see VBOXSVR under Network

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Edit  4  years later after the original reply in 2015  virtualbox org now offers an official user manual in both html and pdf formats  which effectively deprecates the previous version of this answer    Step 3  Guest Additions  mentioned in this response as well as several others  is discussed in great detail in manual sections 4 1 and 4 2 Step 1  Shared Folders Setting in VirtualBox Manager  is discussed in section 4 3   Original Answer  Because there isn t an official answer yet and I literally just did this for my OS X WinXP install  here s what I did    VirtualBox Manager  Open the Shared Folders setting and click the     icon to add a new folder   Then  populate the Folder Path  or use the drop-down to navigate  with the folder you want shared and make sure  Auto-Mount  and  Make Permanent  are checked  Boot Windows Once Windows is running  goto the Devices menu  at the top of the VirtualBox Manager window  and select  Insert Guest Additions CD Image       Cycle through the prompts and once you finish installing  let it reboot  After Windows reboots  your new drive should show up as a Network Drive in Windows Explorer    Hope that helps

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I had the exact same issue  after rightly have configured in Mac OSX host a SharedFolder with Auto-Mount enabled  On the Guest OS  it is also required to install VirtualBox Guest Additions  For the case of Windows  it is       VBoxWindowsAdditions exe   Right after this installation  i could perfectly view the shared folder content under This PC and Network    VBOXSVR Installers

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Yesterday  I am able to share the folders from my host OS Macbook  high Sierra  to Guest OS Windows 10  Original Answer  Because there isn t an official answer yet and I literally just did this for my OS X WinXP install  here s what I did    VirtualBox Manager  Open the Shared Folders setting and click the     icon to add a new folder  Then  populate the Folder Path  or use the drop-down to navigate  with the folder you want shared and make sure  Auto-Mount  and  Make Permanent  are checked  Boot Windows Download the VBoxGuestAdditions 4 0 12 iso from http   download virtualbox org virtualbox 4 0 12  Go to Devices   Optical drives   choose disk image   choose the one downloaded in step 3 Inside host guest OS  Windows 10  in my case  I could see  This PC   CD Drive  D   Virtual Guest Additions   For now  right click on it  select Properties  the Compatibility tab  and select Windows 8 compatibility there  Much easier than using the compatibility troubleshooting I did initially      reboot the guest OS  Windows 10  Inside host guest OS  you could see the shared folder  This PC  shared folder   It worked for me so I thought of sharing with everyone too

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You should map your virtual network drive in Windows    Open command prompt in Windows  VirtualBox  Execute  net use x    vboxsvr  lt your shared folder name gt  You should see new drive X  in My Computer   In your case execute net use x    vboxsvr win7

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