Things on this page are fragmentary and immature notes/thoughts of the author. Please read with your own judgement!

1. Do NOT check any of the following options unless you know what you are doing.

   • Read-only
     • You won't be able to write to the share directory.
   • Auto-mount
     • Auto-mount uses the root account by default.
     • Not sure whether it uses the user account if a root account is not created in the VM.

   Do check the following option(s).

   • Make Machine-permanent
     • The shared folder will survive VM reboots.
   • Make Global
     • The shared folder will be available to all VMs even after reboots.

   

2. It is suggested that you mount a shared folder manually.

   sudo mount -t vboxsf -o uid=$(id -u),gid=$(id -u),fmask=177,dmask=077 \
       name_of_shared_folder mount_point
   

3. As alternatives to shared folders, you can

   • SSH into the host machine
   • use sshfs
   • start JupyterLab, VSCode Servers on the host and work in the guest VM