When you try to start the Git Bash window with Git Bash Here, nothing happens. The system cannot find the drive specified On a Windows 10 guest machine, only the PowerShell window can see the shared folder as a mapped network drive, E:Ĭommand prompt will display the error message On a Windows 7 guest machine the Git Bash, Command Prompt, and PowerShell windows all can see the mapped E: network drive, so you can change the working directory with cd E:Īnd execute commands in the shared folders. The shared folder appears in Windows Explorer as a mapped network location.įor more on this see Configure the Windows virtual machine in VirtualBox
It is a universal way to enable a shared folder and it should work for all distributions.When you start a Windows 10 guest machine in VirtualBox on your workstation, you can set up shared folders to seamlessly copy files between your workstation and the Windows 10 guest machine. If you use some other distributions as a guest, look at the instructions for Debian. So, I will show you the settings for Arch Linux, Linux Mint and Debian as guest systems. In this tutorial, my host system is Arch Linux, but the host system does not matter in this case because we will do all the setting in the guest systems. Change the user permission for the shared folder.Install guest additions for your guest system.There are several essential steps you need to follow, to enable a shared folder between the real machine (host) and the virtual machine (guest): I will also show a universal way that should work for any Linux guest distribution. So, I will show you how to enable a shared folder in Virtualbox for Debian, Linux Mint/Ubuntu, and Arch Linux as guest systems. However, configuring the Virtualbox to share files between your main system and the system you installed in a VirtualBox is not trivial.
VirtualBox is a very useful tool to install operating systems inside the main system.
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