Often you need to access folders of the host from your guest virtual machine. This is now possible in most virtualization products. Here we will explain how to perform this operaton in VirtualBox. I have Kubuntu installed as guest on an windows host and I needed to access a shared folder in windows from kubuntu.

All you need to do is install the Guest Additions in Kubuntu.

1. Power off the virtual machine

2. Go to Machine > Settings… > Shared Folders

3. Click “Folder Path”, to browse for the folder to share.

4. Click “Folder Name”, enter a name to describe the sharing.

5. Click “OK” and start the virtual machine again.

6. Create a mount point which is an empty folder.

7. Code in a terminal the following:
   

   sudo mount -t vboxsf folder path_of_mount_point

   
   folder is the name you typed in earlier to describe the share

8. Now you can browse the shared folder