VirtualBox/Guest Additions/Windows

Here we install the Guest AdditionsVirtualBox manual, "Guest Additions". Go to the host operating system. At the top of the VM window, choose Devices >> "Insert Guest Additions CD image...". Then, VirtualBox simulates inserting a CD into the simulated optical drive of the VM. If you need to eject this, you can either restart the VM or click on Devices >> optical drives >> eject. To add an additional CD reader or network card, the VM must be halted or shut down. If you didn't add a Windows shared folder into the "configuration" menu of the VirtualBox graphical interfacehttp://www.htpcbeginner.com/mount-virtualbox-shared-folder-on-windows/, you can do it in Command Prompt with: VBoxManage sharedfolder add "VMName" --name "SharedName" --hostpath "C:\Users\Public\Documents\SharedFolderPath". Linux guest The Guest Additions CD should be read from the guest OS like thishttp://superuser.com/questions/950431/how-to-install-virtual-box-guest-additions-on-debian: sudo mount /dev/cdrom /media/cdrom cd /media/cdrom sudo ./VBoxLinuxAdditions.run Then, just mount the Windows folder from Linuxhttps://help.ubuntu.com/community/VirtualBox/SharedFolders: mkdir ~/vboxshare sudo mount -t vboxsf SharedName ~/vboxshare That's it, you can browse your Windows files: ls ~/vboxshare References