https://jeltsch.org/en/tags/file-transfer/Recent content in File Transfer on Michael’s DomainHugoen-usCopyright © 2002 - 2026 Michael Jeltsch.Fri, 24 Jul 2026 00:18:18 +0300https://jeltsch.org/en/accessing_shared_folders_in_virtualbox_linux_guest/Fri, 28 Jul 2017 00:00:00 +0000https://jeltsch.org/en/accessing_shared_folders_in_virtualbox_linux_guest/<p>Transferring files from the host to the guest OS and vice-versa doesn&rsquo;t work out-of-the-box when you install <a href="https://www.virtualbox.org/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">VirtualBox&nbsp; <svg class="svg-inline--fa fas fa-up-right-from-square fa-2xs" fill="currentColor" aria-hidden="true" role="img" viewBox="0 0 512 512" overflow="visible"><use href="#fas-up-right-from-square"></use></svg></a> from the Ubuntu repositories and download an Ubuntu VirtualBox image (e.g. from <a href="http://www.osboxes.org/virtualbox-images%29" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">http://www.osboxes.org/virtualbox-images)&nbsp; <svg class="svg-inline--fa fas fa-up-right-from-square fa-2xs" fill="currentColor" aria-hidden="true" role="img" viewBox="0 0 512 512" overflow="visible"><use href="#fas-up-right-from-square"></use></svg></a> . After installing the guest additions, drag-and-drop didn&rsquo;t seem to work for me and I needed to set up a &ldquo;Shared Folder&rdquo;. After setting it up via the GUI, it doesn&rsquo;t automatically appear on the guest desktop. You need to mount it:<code>sudo mount -t vboxsf name(as_specified_via_VirtualBox_GUI) ~/mount_point_in_the_guest_OS/</code>There are obviously many other ways how to achieve this (e.g. via Samba or sftp or sshfs)…</p>