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A Shared Folder is useful when you want to copy something from your host machine to the virtual box or from the virtual box to your host computer. In this article, I have described how to create shared folder in VirtualBox with the screenshots.

1. Select the node1 and click on settings. Under the settings section click on shared folder and add a new shared folder. Alternatively from running node1, you can find the shared folder settings option.

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2. Choose the desired location to create the shared folder. Here I have selected my D drive and under D drive I have created a folder called staging :

3. Under the Staging folder I have created another folder called Linux as I have created a Linux machine and this Linux folder I will use as a shared folder between my host machine and virtual machine.

4. Select the Read-only, Auto-mount and Make Permanent(If present) checkboxes and click on OK.

5. Congrats! Your shared folder is now ready. Click OK to save the changes.

Hope this article will help you to create Shared Folder in Oracle VirtualBox easily.

If you want to install VirtualBox Guest Editions, follow my article Install Virtualbox Guest Editions.