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Log out and in again to pickup the change. Then as per several of the previous answers in a Terminal on the Guest VM add your user to the vboxsf group. Then in the popup window select the Host Folder you just created as the Folder Path and give it a Folder Name that will be used by the Guest VM, also tick the "Auto Mount" check-box.Īfter rebooting the Guest VM launch a terminal on the Host and check the user that is associated with the running VirtualBox Guest process is either your user, very likely, or in a group with access to the Shared folder. In the next dialog click on the Add Folder icon to the right of the Folders List. In the Oracle VM Virtual Box Manager select your VM and then click on the "Shared folders" configuration element. Then Shutdown the Guest VM.Ĭreate the Shared folder in you Host system using Terminal, I usually put it in my Documents folder, and make sure that your user can access it. Once they have click the "Run" button in the dialog that popped up in your Guest VM.Īfter the script finishes right click the CD Icon on the Desktop and choose Eject. With your running VM selected go to the VirtualBox menu and select Devices -> Insert Guest Additions CD image.Īllow a few seconds for the mount to occur and the install script to kick off. Once you have the prereqs in place its time to install the Guest Additions. sudo yum groupinstall 'Developer Tools'Īnd the Kernel headers package so that the Guest Additions script can update your kernel. Make sure you have the Developer Tools installed. Start up your RHEL Guest VM and open up a Terminal.

Finally add user to vboxsf group ( replace USER_NAME with what printed in last command.For VirtualBox(5.0.24) Host=Mac(El Capitan) and Guest=RHEL(7.2).

When terminal opens, run command to check your username in case you don’t remember: whoami.

Open a terminal window from system app launcher.

Firstly, start the virtual machine and login.

Here I’m going to do it via a single command: There are a few ways to add an user to a group. All you need to do is add your user into this group.

The shared folder belongs to vboxsf group in the guest. You do not have permissions necessary to view the contents of “xxx” Or it prompts permission issue while accessing from the left pane in file manager: GDBus.Error.Failed: Unix process subject does not have uid set. And it pops up an error dialog when you trying to open it: However, after you created one, the shared folder is marked with cross and lock icons. Shared Folders is an useful feature for file sync between Virtualbox host and guest OSes. Running Ubuntu as virtual machine via VirtualBox? You may encounter permission issue to access the shared folder between host and guest.