Virtualbox shared folder settings tutorial

VirtualBox is a free open source virtual machine, it is simple and easy to use, sometimes experiment on VirtualBox, you need to access the files on the host in the virtual machine, do not know how to set up, online said For the low version of VirtualBox, what "data space" … …, I can use VirtualBox there is nothing "data space", only honestly look at the description of VirtualBox, by the way to see a few The concept shared folder uses VirtualBox's "shared folder" function (requires the enhancement package, the installation tutorial below) to access the files on the host from the virtual machine. To configure a shared folder, you need two steps: Step 1: Specify the folder to be shared on the host on the virtual machine (that is, create a shared folder) Step 2: Mount the virtual machine to access the contents of the shared folder. (Mapping Network Drive) Step 1: Specify the folder to be shared on the host on the virtual machine (create a shared folder) (1) Click on the running virtual machine <;Device” – “Share Folder“ (Or right click on the folder icon in the lower right corner of the virtual machine status bar, select ” shared folder “) open “ settings (shared folder) “ dialog (2) for virtual machines that are not running (normally closed A virtual machine cannot be a virtual machine that is fast-hibernated. A fast-sleeping virtual machine cannot specify a shared folder by right-clicking on the virtual machine. Select “Set"Open“Set” dialog box, select “ Shared Folders For running virtual machines and powered-off virtual machines, you can see that the types of shared folders that can be created are different: For running virtual machines – able to create fixed and temporarily allocated shared folders l for closed virtual machines – can only create fixed allocated shared folders fixedly allocated shared folders for virtual machines that define shared folders Persistently existing; temporarily allocated shared folders are added/deleted when the virtual machine is running, and the virtual machine is closed and disappears to create a fixedly allocated shared folder (the same steps are used to create a temporarily allocated shared folder) Click “Add Shared Folder ” Specify the shared folder path (the path of the folder on the host) Click “Other“ to select the host folder to be shared with the virtual machine. Click on the option to complete <;OK“if the default shared folder name is not Satisfied, you can modify the shared folder name Step 2: Mounting in the virtual machine to access the contents of the shared folder (mapped network drive) is mounted in two ways: l auto mount l manual mount manual mount slightly Troublesome, let's take a look at the manual mount. My virtual machine is installed with Windows 7, I Take Windows 7 as an example to illustrate the first thing to enable Windows 7 "Network Discovery" and "File and Printer Sharing" "Click“Start“ – ”Control Panel"Click“Change Advanced Sharing Settings&ldquo ;