Alternatively, you can just drag the folder in Nautilus to the right navigation area and it will create an easy to access link. However the name-of-link shouldn't exist in the directory where you want to create the link(That is there should be no folder or file with that name). Replace sf_shared with the actual name of the shared directory and name_of_link with whatever you want.

In Terminal (assuming that you are in the directory where you want the link to appear and that you've enabled the Nautilus plugin that gives you the context menu option ) do: ln -s /media/sf_shared/ name_of_link. They're usually named 'sf_name-of-shared-folder'.įor quick access, you may want to create a link to the shared folders in the home folder. Next you would need to define a name of this folder. Access the shared folder settings in the VirtualBox virtual machine settings Click on the Add button (plus sign) and specify a directory you wish to share with the guest operating system. Confirm from your media folder if the shared folders are present. Open the VM Settings and go to Shared Folders on your host operating system. This command appends the current user to the vboxsf group, which is the owner of the shared folders (found in /media/ on the Ubuntu box). Am assuming you have already enabled auto-mount while you were adding the folder. So here is how to access your shared folders on Ubuntu VM(Oracle Virtualbox).

Oracle vm shared folder