Change the user permission for the shared folder.

Install guest additions for your guest system.

There are several essential steps you need to follow, to enable a shared folder between the real machine (host) and the virtual machine (guest): I will also show a universal way that should work for any Linux guest distribution. So, I will show you how to enable a shared folder in Virtualbox for Debian, Linux Mint/Ubuntu, and Arch Linux as guest systems. However, configuring the Virtualbox to share files between your main system and the system you installed in a VirtualBox is not trivial.

Hope this summary is helpful and saves time for searching of informations.VirtualBox is a very useful tool to install operating systems inside the main system. More Informations therefore can be found here: HOWTO: Use Shared Folders

To the correct location and overwrite the old file. Afterwards move the file with sudo mv /home//boot.local /etc/rc.d/boot.local -f Since this requires root privileges I would recommend adding the line to the file, and saving the file afterwards somewhere else (for example /home/user/), where no root proviliges are required.

In OpenSuse add following line to '/etc/rc.d/boot.local'. Since the mounting of the shared folder has to be done everytime the system is restarted, you can do this automatically after the boot process. See also Install Linux Guest Additions for a more detailed explanation.Īfterwards the actual shared folder can be mounted.Ĭreate directory where the data of the shared folder should be, for example: home/user/hostĬorrect notation of the foldernames is important Therefore install kernel-source and kernel-syms regarding this link using zypper: Install Linux Guest Additions sudo zypper install kernel-sourceĪnd open an console/terminal in the mounted folder and install the additions. OpenSuse should not be running inside virtualBox.Īfterwards, System preparations and the Linux Guest Additions for the VirtualBox have to be installed in opensuse. How to use the downloaded opensuse.vdi file with VirtualBox is described here: Importing a VDI in VirtualBox

OpenSuse already installed for vmware directly to download available here (1,3GB).

Since I haven't found, after long searching, information regarding 'How to set up a Shared Folder using OpenSuse in VirtualBox', I decided to summarize the process in here - hopefully it helps some others.

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