The following steps assume that you do NOT have any shared folders added to your Windows 7 virtual machine.

Therefore, I present today a step-by-step tutorial (with screenshots) to this very simple-to-fix issue (you won't believe how simple it was in the end).įor this tutorial, we've used VirtualBox 3.0.6 and Windows 7 Ultimate, on an Ubuntu 9.10 Alpha 6 machine. Like many of you out there, I've searched and searched on the Internet for a solution to this issue, which I've also noticed to be quite popular (why should it be? you create something on the virtual machine and you want to save it, right?), and many guides are incomplete or they point you in the wrong direction. So, what's not working? Well, you set the folder(s) in the 'Shared Folders' section of the virtual machine's settings dialog and they will NOT appear in Windows 7, like it works with Windows XP. I have recently encountered another issue: sharing folders with a Windows 7 guest machine!

In my last tutorial about VirtualBox (the free virtualization software from Sun Microsystems) I offered a solution to fix the USB support, a problem that I think is fixed now, but.

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