The installation process may be little bit different for diferent Linux distributions (Ubuntu, Fedora, etc) and I recommend using Google to find right way how to install the Virtual Box Guest Additions.įirst mount mechanism is fully managed by the Virtual Box Guest Additions, and VM options dialogue. Open the Virtual Box machine settings by click on “Machine->Settings…” in menu. NOTE: To get the Shared Folder mechanism working, you have to install the Virtual Box Guest Additions, what have to be provided manually. Both are dependent on the classical Linux mount mechanism, but are little different.

The Virtual Box offers two ways how to get the shared folder accessible in the Linux guest OS.

Here you can find how to disable this behavior and share files as normal data (not executable files). I cannot imagine regular computer user scenario when he need to get shared windows file as executable in Linux. In this case, files on Linux get executable flag by default, what is in most cases annoying and unwanted behavior – for example file names coloring will stop working, because all archives, sources etc.

The problem is when you share files between Windows host and Linux guest. If you are using Virtual Box virtualization technology then you know that is possible to share some folders between the host OS and guest OS.

Access virtualbox shared folder