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    How to access a shared folder in VirtualBox

Add shared folder

VBoxManage sharedfolder add "VM name" --name sharename --hostpath "C:\test"
Mount shared folder

#!/bin/bash

_VBNAME="home"
_VBTARGET="$HOME/windows-home"
_VBUID=1000
_VBGID=1000

mkdir "$_VBTARGET"
sudo mount -t vboxsf -o uid=$_VBUID,gid=$_VBGID "$_VBNAME" "$_VBTARGET"
cd "$_VBTARGET" && ls -1

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