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Mounting a shared folder on ubuntu using Virtual Box
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  • Create a transient shared folder via virtualbox shared folder settings. Note down the name of the created folder

  • Create a folder in your home directory where you want to mount this share

      $ mkdir ~/share

  • Issue the command to mount the Vbox share in the directory just created

      $ sudo mount -t vboxsf <name of share> ~/share/
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