![]() Sudo usermod –append –groups vboxsf username Adding a user to the vboxsf group just takes one command. When VirtualBox links the Windows folder to our Manjaro folder, it does so using the vboxsf group, which means that our user account must be a member of this group, otherwise, you will get permission errors. Add the User Account to the VBOXSF User Group You can choose any folder you want however, this is just an example. The ~ symbol is used here to represent the currently logged-in user’s home folder. To create this folder you could use the following command from the Manjaro terminal prompt. Next, we need to create a folder within the Manjaro VM, where the folder from Windows will appear.įor my example, I have created a folder within my Manjaro user account folder called “Shared_Projects”. C:\Users\username\Projects Create a Folder on Your Manjaro/Arch Linux VM In my example here, it will be a folder in my Windows user directory called “Projects”. The first step here is to either locate or create the folder you want to share from your Windows OS. Sudo pacman -Sy virtualbox-guest-utils Create the Folder in Windows ![]() You can install these required tools with the following command. It’s not difficult, just a slight bit different and I will show you here how to share a windows folder with your Manjaro or Arch based Linux VM in VirtualBox.īefore proceeding with the following steps, make sure that you have the VirtualBox Guest Additions installed on your Manjaro or Arch Linux virtual machine. One of those tasks is sharing a folder from my Windows PC through VirtualBox to my Manjaro Linux virtual machine. ![]() ![]() Completing tasks in Manjaro can be a bit different than in Ubuntu and other Debian Linux variants. There are many Linux distributions out there and many choose Ubuntu or some variant of it, I’ve chosen Manjaro which is an Arch based Linux. ![]() I like many others, use a Linux virtual machine in VirtualBox from my Windows PC to do development work. ![]()
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