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Getting VirtualBox working in rudimentary fashion for compilation (OSX)
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VirtualBoxHowTo.md

Virtualbox guest:

https://askubuntu.com/a/917163

Once restarted add user to group:

nano /etc/group :add user name to end of vboxsf line (last in file normally)

Fix inability to write symlinks:

https://serverfault.com/questions/345341/cant-create-symlinks-in-virtualbox-shared-folders

VBoxManage setextradata VM_NAME VBoxInternal2/SharedFoldersEnableSymlinksCreate/SHARE_NAME 1

MUST restart the VirtualBox GUI and instance.

Setup for ssh from you mac: https://stackoverflow.com/a/10532299/9267580

ssh -p 3022 ... vbox-username@127.0.0.1
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