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?
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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:
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:
Hope that helps.
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.
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.
Yesterday, I am able to share the folders from my host OS Macbook (high Sierra) to Guest OS Windows 10
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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:
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.
It worked for me so I thought of sharing with everyone too.
You should map your virtual network drive in Windows.
net use x: \\vboxsvr\<your_shared_folder_name>
X:
in My Computer
In your case execute net use x: \\vboxsvr\win7
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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