Index: en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/virtualization/chapter.xml =================================================================== --- en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/virtualization/chapter.xml +++ en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/virtualization/chapter.xml @@ -820,6 +820,15 @@ </match> </device> </deviceinfo> + + Shared folders are accessible by mounting them using + mount_vboxfs command. First, create a shared folder using + VirtualBox GUI or by running the command: + &prompt.root; vboxmanage sharedfolder add 'Your VM name' --name shared_folder_name --hostpath /path/to/share + Note that shared folder name could not contain spaces. Now, you can mount + the shared folder from within guest system in the following way: + &prompt.root; mount_vboxfs -w shared_folder_name /mnt +