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Permission fix for Linux VBox guest Win10 host
I purchased a used Microsoft Surface Pro 2 this past weekend (8gb MEM, 256GBm ssd). I have a RHEL 7.4 guest running using the latest Oracle Virtualbox (needed separate guie3st tools ISO, built-in iso would not comple correctly).
I defined a shared folder to share into my RHEL 74 guest OS. When I tried to open the shared folder from RHGEL 7,4, I got a permission failure.
I found an answer via Google but cannot find the URL. Here is the fix that works after loging out and back in from GNOME session.
sudo usermod -a -G vboxsf $(whoami)
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