Comments on: Windows 7 in VirtualBox: Shared Folders workaround

By: linuxfueled

linuxfueled — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 05:46:10 +0000

WINDOWS 7 users read…..

If your main OS is Windows 7 (the host machine) and you just cannot get this shares to work. Setup your host directory with the map drive path and what not as listed above.

When you goto access the shared folder from inside the VM client (in my case ubuntu), just use the internal network address. make sure you have samba i.e. smb installed in ubuntu or its equivalent in your client OS.

So in ubuntu to reach my Windows 7 machine with a shared folder it looks like this in the file browser window. smb://192.168.1.101/Users/Public/Documents

By: Speaker

Speaker — Sat, 06 Mar 2010 06:59:23 +0000

Wasn’t able to understand how to access the shared folder in the quest OS from this tutorial.
Hmmm, I’ll scratch my head and keep reading until it sinks in I think.
Thanks for posting this!

By: malibusurfer

malibusurfer — Mon, 07 Dec 2009 20:59:10 +0000

One minor note: \\vboxsrv\Temp to link/share a folder called Temp in Ubuntu to Windows 7 in VirtualBox. Would not work if I tried to Map drive in Win 7 as \\vboxsrv\myname\Temp or \\vboxsrv\home\myname\Temp (myname is my home’s folder).

I am using Ubuntu 9.04, VirtualBox 3.1.0, and Windows 7 Pro.

By: King321

King321 — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 16:43:55 +0000

\\vboxsvr\Name work awsome, must set it up to share in virtualbox first then map it in the host OS

By: SeaGrizzly

SeaGrizzly — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 22:34:03 +0000

Seems that you have to do the full path as well, not just \\vboxsvr

By: Marcio Henrique

Marcio Henrique — Sun, 26 Jul 2009 00:48:28 +0000

OK, tks guys!!

The “\\vboxsvr\shared_folder” really did the trick!!! After spent 2 hours, that was my redemption!
Tks again!

By: luis vaca

luis vaca — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 21:59:30 +0000

If you map a general linux location such as “\\vboxsrv\media” you should have access to USB, CD-DVD, all linux media….IT REALLY WORKS

By: nicholas

nicholas — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 02:11:51 +0000

heather is right, it’s vboxsvr, but apparently mine wasn’t scanning the shared folders for the machine, so \\vboxsvr\sharename worked while \\vboxsvr didn’t.

By: nicholas

nicholas — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 02:03:24 +0000

uh, vboxsrv or vboxsvr? both give me “network error: windows cannot access \\___”.

By: alan

alan — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 01:23:59 +0000

that \\vboxsrv really works, how silly!!

make a share folder in vbox
save something from win 7 in it

rifht click network – map net drive

use the point name above hehe, and u see your file ;9