Thursday, April 14, 2016

Note to self: How to mount virtualbox shared folders RW, and enable symlinks

So these are two commands to mount shared folder in a linux host on a linux guest so that the guest has full permission in the shared folders.

This first command should be executed on the guest VM

sudo mount -t vboxsf SHARE_NAME /MOUNT_POINT/ -o rw,users,umask=0000

This next command enables symlink creation and should be executed on the host. 

VBoxManage setextradata VM_NAME VBoxInternal2/SharedFoldersEnableSymlinksCreate/SHARE_NAME 1



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