VirtualBox shared folders

VirtualBox shared folders

1 - Insert guest additions to running machine from Devices menu
2 - Mount the CD with guest additions:
  $ sudo mount /dev/cdrom /media
  $ ls -lh /media
3 - Install building dependencies:
  $ sudo apt-get update
  $ sudo apt-get install dkms build-essential linux-headers-generic linux-headers-$(uname -r)
4 - Execute installer:
  $ sudo /media/VBoxLinuxAdditions.run 
5 - Create and share folder from VirtualBox machine settings (folder name in this example is 'shared')
6 - Mount folder on Linux
  $ sudo mount -t vboxsf shared ~/shared