How to set up a virtual machine to share a folder with a host

Open the virtual machine and click Virtual machine settings.

Go to the virtual machine settings interface, click Options, then click Shared Folders, and click Add. Go to the Add Shared Folder wizard and click Next.

Click Browse, select the folder that needs to be shared, and click OK after selection, I choose E disk here.

Click Next, and then click Done. The shared folder is set up.

The shared folder that you see after entering the virtual machine.

1. First of all, click on the virtual machine system on my computer in the main interface of the virtual machine that opens, and then click on the virtual machine settings on the right.

2. Then, click Share File in the Options tab in the pop-up virtual machine settings.

3. Next, click the Add button on the right side of the shared file.

4. After that, click the Next button in the pop-up window.

6. Finally, check Enable the sharing, and then click the Done button at the bottom.

Method 1: 1. Click on the virtual machine and select VMware Tools to install. Click on it and go straight to it**. **Done, just click Install. Drag and drop files from the machine directly into VMware.

Method 2: Use the file sharing feature to transfer files to each other.

1. Select the virtual machine and click Settings.

2. Enter the options page. Select the shared folder. Select Enable, and check Map as Network Drive (M) in Windows Client. In the folder, click Add.

3. Browse the folder you want to share in the pop-up page and click Next. Click OK.

4. Right-click on My Computer. Select Map Network Drive (n).

5. Click Browse, select the VMware shared folder, and find the folder you just shared. Click OK.

6. Double-click My Computer, select Network Drive, and click Enter.

7. You can see the shared folder.

1. Open the VMware virtual machine.

Make sure that the next operation is done when the client is powered off.

2. Click "VM Processing", and the "VM Settings" window will pop up.

3. In the "Virtual Machine Settings" window, select "Options" >>Shared Folders". We can see that the shared folder is disabled at this point.

<>5. At this time, the "Add Shared Folder Wizard" will pop up, click "Next".

6. Select the host path of the shared folder and name the shared folder.

7. Select "Enable this sharing" and click "Done".

8. In this way, we can see that the "Shared Folder" already exists, but it is still disabled, click "OK" to save the settings just now.

9. Next, we start the virtual machine and open "My Computer" >>vmware-host.”

10. Here, we can see the shared folder.

Start the VirtualBox virtual machine, the XP system is installed in my virtual machine, click the "device" of the Virtualbox software, click "Install Enhancements" in the pop-up device menu, pop up the "install software interface" in the virtualbox virtual machine, and directly click the "exet" button or "install" button until the "finish" button appears. Click the "Finish" button, restart the virtual machine, click "Device" in the Virtualbox software, click "Shared Folder" in the pop-up device menu, click "Add a new shared folder definition" icon in the "Share File Settings" dialog box, click the inverted triangle behind "Shared Folder Path" in the "Add Shared Folder" dialog box, and click "Other" in the drop-down menu. Specify a folder in the Browse Folders dialog box that pops up.

After specifying the folder, check the boxes before "Auto-Attachment" and "Auto-Assign" in the "Add Shared Folder" dialog box, and click the OK button. Click the "OK" button in the "Share File Settings" dialog box to restart the VirtualBox virtual machine system, open my computer in the Virtualbox virtual machine, and check if there is a "network drive" and "" below'vboxsrv'cc" (CCC is the name of the shared folder I set). If there is a Shared Folder feature of VirtualBox, it has been successfully enabled!