To make this work, a special mouse driver is Pointer and pressing the Host key is no longer required toįree the mouse from being captured by the Section 1.9.2, “Capturing and Releasing Keyboard and Mouse”, this feature provides Overcome the limitations for mouse support described in This chapter describes the Guest Additions in detail. Your life much easier by providing closer integration between hostĪnd guest and improving the interactive performance of guest

For any seriousĪnd interactive use, the Oracle VM VirtualBox Guest Additions will make Installing operating systems in a virtual machine. The previous chapter covered getting started with Oracle VM VirtualBox and Controlling Virtual Monitor Topology 4.11.1. Using the Guest Control File Manager 4.9. Using Guest Properties to Wait on VM Events 4.8. Hardware 2D Video Acceleration for Windows Guests 4.6. Hardware 3D Acceleration (OpenGL and Direct3D 8/9) 4.5.2.

Guest Additions for Oracle Solaris 4.2.4. Installing and Maintaining Guest Additions 4.2.1. One guide is here Īlso, in new virtual box - 4.3.20 I guess, they have this new feature of drag and drop where you can just drag files and folders to your virtual machine just by dragging. If any issue, just comment here and I will tell you alternative methods.Īlso, if all of this sounds too geeky, you can do the same thing using the graphical tools. Now you shall be able to access that folder. vboxsf is the group name that you want your user to be inĪ reboot, or a logout, may be required for changes to take affect.Īfter this operation you can verify that your user is indeed in the vboxsf group by doing this: cat /etc/group | grep 'vboxsf'.-G means you will supply the group name now.usermod - the command to change the user properties.sudo - because you need root permission.

Start your terminal and write the following line: sudo usermod -aG vboxsf mat What you need is to add your user 'mat' to the same group. Also the root has permission to that folder because its in the group 'vboxsf'. This group 'vboxsf' is the group which has read/write permissions to that folder. The issue is that your user 'mat' is not in the same group as 'vboxsf'.

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