Shared Folder...not working

[bobswusa]

I am running Win 10 inside vrtualbox 6.1 in Linux Mint 20.2. From following a post below on how to create shared folders, I did so, but Win 10 in virtualbox still not recognizing the USB drive. Then I read the post to the part on making one a user of the vboxusers group, which I assume is the issue, but I am unable to do this. There are several groups by my name, but vboxuser isn't one of them.

Any thoughts? Trying to get one file from a USB drive over to win 10 in virtualbox.

Thanks.

Bob

[jamiemint]

I am running Win 10 inside vrtualbox 6.1 in Linux Mint 20.2. From following a post below on how to create shared folders, I did so, but Win 10 in virtualbox still not recognizing the USB drive. Then I read the post to the part on making one a user of the vboxusers group, which I assume is the issue, but I am unable to do this. There are several groups by my name, but vboxuser isn't one of them.

To see the groups you are a member of:

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groups

To make yourself part of the vboxuser group,

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sudo usermod -a -G vboxuser myusername

edit: forgot to mention you may have to log out and back in.

Jamie

[RIH]

The Shared Folder should show up like this in Windows 10.

A GUI way to add vboxuser to your user is..
Menu - search Groups - open Users and Groups - enter password - left mouse click your user name - left mouse click on your current list of Groups - scroll down to vboxusers & left mouse click to add to groups.. Close & restart computer..

[bobswusa]

Thanks for the help.

Able to add vboxusers to my groups, restarted computer, still don't see the shared folder in Win 10 in Virtualbox.

I'll retry making the shared folder itself, maybe I made an error there.

Bob

[AndyMH]

You are confusing shared folders and usb drives, which is it that you want?

Have you installed the extension pack in VB and how did you install VB - from software manager or direct from oracle?

[bobswusa]

Sorry, my first post is confusing.

I first tried getting USB ports working, got nowhere, but from looking at the previous posts, it sounded that shared folders are easier/better, so I am working on shared folders.

I downloaded virtualbox from Oracle, as advised from a link in a linux tutorial site .

I do have extension pack installed acording to preferences, with a green checkmark by it. ( Version 6.1.26r145957 )

Bob

[AndyMH]

You set shared folders up in the settings for your VM:

and as RIH showed in their screenshot, in win they appear as network drives.

For usb drives, plug it it and then, with your VM running, on the VB panel at the bottom of the screen right click on the usb icon, it will give you a list of usb devices - click on the one you want. While your VM has access to the usb drive it is unavailable to mint, so a good way to make sure you can't see either is to share the mount point for a usb drive and then try to access it as a usb device in the VM. Only do one.

If you haven't done yet, install guest-additions in win (on the VB devices menu 'insert guest additions', it will then appear as a CD drive in win and may autorun, if not run setup on the CD drive).

[spamegg]

For the USB:

After installing the Extension Pack, and after plugging in the USB drive in the Host machine, go to the Settings of the Guest machine, and add a filter with the values set to the plugged-in USB device like this:

[bobswusa]

Thanks for the great help with USB - now it is connected and works fine.

Never got the shared folder to work, even after doing the CD drive setup that appears in Windows, but as the USB is even better, I'm done. Now to get enlarge the little window that Win 10 appears in...

But now I think I am completely off of windows except for the virtualbox machine, for the only 2 things I need it for.

Bob

[AndyMH]

Now to get enlarge the little window that Win 10 appears in...

You need guest additions for that, then win will go full screen (or seamless if you prefer that mode).

No idea why you are struggling with shared folders, most people find that one easy and have trouble with usb devices.

[bobswusa]

The USB sharing is now fixed.

Thanks.

[lewtwo]

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sudo usermod -a -G vboxuser myusername

edit: forgot to mention you may have to log out and back in.
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small correction (on the host machine):

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sudo usermod -a -G vboxusers myusername

Note the plural form (not that it solved the problem).

[spamegg]

Thanks, I also realized it's vboxsf on the Guest, and vboxusers on the Host, for some reason

[RIH]

You are welcome..
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