Cheat Sheet

Useful VirtualBox tricks

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Check your VirtualBox version.

Go to https://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox

Open your Virtualbox version.

Download Oracle_VM_VirtualBox_Extension_Pack.vbox-extpack.

Open Virtualbox VM Manager, go to File -> Preferences, Select Extension.

Now add extension by browsing to download location.

SSH to NAT guest

Open the VM Settings, go to Network.

In your adapter tab, click on Advanced. Then click on Port Forwarding.

Add a rule as follows:

Name	Protocol	Host IP	Host Port	Guest IP	Guest Port
SSH	TCP	<leave empty>	2222	<leave empty>	22

Now from you host run:

ssh 127.0.0.1 -p 2222

References

https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/235518/ssh-to-virtualbox-mac-host-linux-guest-using-nat

Shared Folder

Install Guest Additions.

Install Extension Pack.

In your guest, create a folder to be used to mount the shared folder.

sudo mkdir /windows
sudo chown $USER:$USER /windows

Power off the VM.

Open your VM settings and add a shared folder.

Turn on your VM.

Test mounting your folder.

sudo mount -t vboxsf -o uid=$UID,gid=$UID windows /windows

Setup fstab.

echo "windows		/windows	vboxsf	uid=$UID,gid=$UID	0	0" >> /etc/fstab