I have read (and re-read) VirtualBox manual section 4.3. I am able to connect to a USB drive plugged into the host. Setting the mount point to the letter Z did not help. I have tried a number things, including re-installing Guest Additions and verifying the presence of Guest Additions, but the folders do not appear.

I just got a Windows 10 VM running but I am unable to see the host folders in Windows Explorer. After declaring them in settings (with the VM off), they just appear. The log for the VM list both packages.Ġ0:00:08.397977 VMMDev: Guest Additions information report: Interface = 0x00010004 osType = 0x0003B100 (Windows 10, 64-bit)Ġ0:00:01.438842 SUP: Opened VBo圎hciR0.r0 (/usr/lib/virtualbox/ExtensionPacks/Oracle_VM_VirtualBox_Extension_Pack/linux.amd64/VBo圎hciR0.r0) at 0xXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX.Ġ0:00:01.029422 Installed Extension Packs:Ġ0:00:01.029441 Oracle VM VirtualBox Extension Pack (Version: 6.0.24 r139119 VRDE Module: VBoxVRDP)įor several years now, I have had no difficulty accessing the shared folders (drives) on the host in the Windows 7 VM. You can install these required tools with the following command.I have what I believe to be the correct (and same) versions of the Extension Pack and Guest Additions (VBoxGuestAdditions_6.0.24.iso) installed for VMs running Windows 7 and 10 on the same platform and from the same Oracle VM VirtualBox Manager.

Add the User Account to the VBOXSF User Groupīefore proceeding with the following steps, make sure that you have the VirtualBox Guest Additions installed on your Manjaro or Arch Linux virtual machine.

Create a Folder on Your Manjaro/Arch Linux VM.

It’s not difficult, just a slight bit different and I will show you here how to share a windows folder with your Manjaro or Arch based Linux VM in VirtualBox. One of those tasks is sharing a folder from my Windows PC through VirtualBox to my Manjaro Linux virtual machine.

Completing tasks in Manjaro can be a bit different than in Ubuntu and other Debian Linux variants. There are many Linux distributions out there and many choose Ubuntu or some variant of it, I’ve chosen Manjaro which is an Arch based Linux. I like many others, use a Linux virtual machine in VirtualBox from my Windows PC to do development work.

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