3/23/2019 0 Commentaires Mac Drive For VirtualboxVirtualBox for Mac is a virtualization tool that allows you to create virtual machines for Mac OS X, Linux, or Windows running on Mac OS X. VirtualBox for Mac is not available from the App Store. VirtualBox is a great free virtualization software from Oracle. I’ve previously written many articles on VirtualBox, including how to and how to. If you’ve had any experience with virtualization software, you’ve probably also heard of VMWare and Hyper-V. I’ve previously used Hyper-V from Microsoft for and one feature that I really liked was the ability to easily share files and folders between the guest and host operating system. In VMWare and Hyper-V, all you have to do in order to share files from the host OS to the guest OS is drag and drop between the desktops. When I switched over to VirtualBox, I realized that sharing folders in VirtualBox was not as simple as dragging and dropping. Chrome or safari for webbrowser mac. I don’t care about bookmark syncing / history syncing with my iPhone, so that means I could care less about the iCloud syncing features with Safari. This was really annoying to me at first and it took me a little while to figure out exactly how to do it! ![]() Now click on the Add New Shared Folder button on the right. In the Folder Path box, click the down arrow and then click Other. Browse to the folder on the host OS that you would like to share with the guest OS. In the Folder Name box, give your share a name. You can choose to make it read-only, auto-mount the folder after restarts, and make the shared folder permanent. Click OK and the new shared folder will show up under Machine Folders if you chose to make it Permanent, otherwise it will show under Transient Folders. Now click OK to close the Shared Folders dialog. You have to do one more thing in order to be able to actually access the folder on the host OS. Depending on whether the guest OS is running Windows or Linux (Ubuntu, etc), the method is different. Windows Guest In this case, you can either browse to the shared folder by going to Computer – Network – VBOXSVR or you can map a drive letter to that shared folder. I prefer the second method to make it easily accessible. The easiest way to map the folder to a drive letter on the virtual PC is to simply right-click on the folder as shown above and choose Map Network Drive. Pick a drive letter, make sure Reconnect at login is checked and then click the Finish button. You can also map the network drive using the command prompt, if required. To do this, open a command prompt and type in the command below.
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