It worked for me so I thought of sharing with everyone too.Īt first I was stuck trying to figure out out to 'insert' the Guest Additions CD image in Windows because I presumed it was a separate download that I would have to mount or somehow attach to the virtual CD drive. Inside host guest OS, you could see the shared folder.Much easier than using the compatibility troubleshooting I did initially. This PC > CD Drive (D:) Virtual Guest Additionsįor now, right click on it, select Properties, the Compatibility tab, and select Windows 8 compatibility there. Inside host guest OS (Windows 10, in my case) I could see:.Go to Devices > Optical drives > choose disk image.Download the VBoxGuestAdditions_4.0.12.iso from.Yesterday, I am able to share the folders from my host OS Macbook (high Sierra) to Guest OS Windows 10 After Windows reboots, your new drive should show up as a Network Drive in Windows Explorer.Cycle through the prompts and once you finish installing, let it reboot. Once Windows is running, goto the Devices menu (at the top of the VirtualBox Manager window) and select 'Insert Guest Additions CD Image.'.Then, populate the Folder Path (or use the drop-down to navigate) with the folder you want shared and make sure 'Auto-Mount' and 'Make Permanent' are checked. VirtualBox Manager: Open the Shared Folders setting and click the '+' icon to add a new folder.Step 1 (Shared Folders Setting in VirtualBox Manager) is discussed in section 4.3īecause there isn't an official answer yet and I literally just did this for my OS X/WinXP install, here's what I did:.Step 3 (Guest Additions) mentioned in this response as well as several others, is discussed in great detail in manual sections 4.1 and 4.2.4+ years later after the original reply in 2015, now offers an official user manual in both html and pdf formats, which effectively deprecates the previous version of this answer:

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