Comments on: Can’t view shared folders in Vista using VirtualBox? Here’s how…

By: Mark

Mark — Mon, 17 Jan 2011 18:57:36 +0000

Thank you.

By: vickie

vickie — Wed, 25 Aug 2010 22:11:13 +0000

Thank you so much for this – it’s missing from everywhere else I’ve looked and was driving me crazy.

By: Nick

Nick — Sun, 23 May 2010 16:42:47 +0000

Thanks so much for that – clear and easy, and I wish it had been in the documentation. Though it took me a while to work out that it needed no spaces in the name, too..

By: benfrain

benfrain — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 13:13:56 +0000

No problem Ed, glad it helped.

By: Ed Tolentino

Ed Tolentino — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 03:38:09 +0000

Man, I was starting to get a migraine trying to figure out how to enable my share folder. You helped me out alot and I just wanna tell you how grateful I am. THANKS.

By: cecil

cecil — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 09:01:01 +0000

Thx everyone. I have same problem and now i can use shaded folders
thx a lot

By: Mark

Mark — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 03:19:12 +0000

Strange, my folder doesn’t need to be shared for it to work. I’m using Mac OS X 10.6 host, with WinXP guest.

I came across this page because I couldn’t figure out why my folder wasn’t being accepted at the “Add Share” page. Two hours later I finally stumbled onto the fact that it doesn’t accept spaces in my folder name.

By: benfrain

benfrain — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 17:20:07 +0000

Hi Sam, yes, you’ll need the Guest Additions – they add all the network drivers etc

By: Sam

Sam — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 17:10:12 +0000

Followed your instructions, running OSX as my host and trying to access a shared folder in Windows 7 (guest), but i still get a message saying that the folder cant be found. I haven’t installed Guest Additions yet, is that required prior to all of your instructions? Thanks

By: JND

JND — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 20:57:57 +0000

Awesome! Works great, thanks!

By: Yumi

Yumi — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 19:01:02 +0000

Thanks a lot!!! Been looking for this! =]

By: TP

TP — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 11:52:39 +0000

Thank you. Worked great.

By: Gil

Gil — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 14:16:06 +0000

Thanks, it works now!

By: benfrain

benfrain — Mon, 25 May 2009 15:50:18 +0000

You are welcome Nicholas – glad it helped – drove me crazy till I figured it out too!

By: Nicholas

Nicholas — Mon, 25 May 2009 15:36:18 +0000

Ben,

THANK YOU!!!

I’ve been reading and struggling to get this working and at last I came upon your instructions above…. simple and straight to the point. My shared folder is now working perfectly.

By: benfrain

benfrain — Fri, 08 May 2009 07:21:56 +0000

Hi Kevin, my illustration above was using OSX as a host however, have you tried doing this part in the post above once you have created the folder you want to share on your host (in your case a folder called ‘pictures’):

Start your guest machine (Windows 7 RC in your case) within VirtualBox and when it’s loaded choose ‘Devices’ from the VirtualBox top bar menu.

Now choose ‘Shared Folders…’ and click the plus button on the right of the resultant window and browse to the shared folder you just made (the ‘pictures’ one on your Vista host). Add this under both Transient and Machine folders.

Now actually in Windows 7, open Computer from the start menu and click the ‘Map network drive’ button.

Choose a drive letter for the shared drive but instead of browsing for the drive (as you would normally) you need to enter this in the folder field: \\vboxsvr\YOUR SHARED FOLDER NAME. So in your case it would be ‘\\vboxsvr\Pictures’

That work?

By: kevin

kevin — Fri, 08 May 2009 04:31:49 +0000

I’m using latest version of VirtualBox and I am having issues with sharing folders.

The host is Windows Vista Ultimate, and the guest is Windows 7 RC. I am attempting to share some photos on the host (Vista) in the Public > Public Pictures folder (network path of: \\KEVIN-PC\Pictures ).

I open up SunBox (Win 7 – guest) and map a drive to the public pictures folder on the host (P), and then enter in the following \\KEVIN-PC\Pictures as the folder I want to map to. But I keep getting errors saying that it can’t locate that folder.

What gives? Your help in this matter would be greatly appreciated.

Kevin