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Virtualbox shared folder windows xp12/19/2023 ![]() ![]() Then I made sure the images have group permissions that allow all my users to run VMs and I tested that is possible. I put the VM images in a directory called VM under /home. As any Unix system Mac also has /home directory, except for you it will be called /Users. Multi-user scenario: Because I have several users who may run virtualbox on my main Linux machine and I want all to access the files I have used ordinary group permissions, which Mac also has. Situation gets trickier if you have several people log into your Mac and want all of them to be able to run VM's and access the same files. You should be able to access files alright because all VMs are running under your account. For your host (Mac) it will be the local path you entered in the Shared Folders. For each of your guests it will be a network share mounted at boot (if you selected Auto-mount). So for each VM you need to set up in their Settings - Shared Folders the path to point at the same location on the host. Guest systems (VMs) are accessing the shared folder as if it was a network share mounted the usual way for each VM. One user scenario: host operating system runs virtualbox under your account name. ![]() There are 2 scenarios to consider I will mention file permissions in the 2nd. The way I dealt with this situation is to make sure that every host has access to the common place where files are.
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