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Cheat Sheet
Useful VirtualBox tricks
Check your VirtualBox version.
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.
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
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
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