In the VirtualBox the directory to be shared is not set as read-only. This means I cannot make or change files in it as a normal user. Once mounted it has permissions dr-xr-xr-x however once mounted the directory is of root ownership and chown user /home/user/Test has no effect. Go to virtual box click on settings-> Shared Folders Click on 'Add new shared folder' button and select 'ABC' folder created in the first step. I found several ways of mounting the directories automatically upon startup using for example the /etc/rc.local method ( here) where you modify said file appending the command to it (without sudo). Most guest addition related problems in virtualbox is solved by creating a group at the host named vboxusers (if not created already) groupadd vboxusers and add your user to that group: sudo usermod -aG vboxusers yourusername Share Improve this answer Follow answered at 10:24 Serhat Cevikel 477 3 6 I try it out, but it does not work. To mount I used the command sudo mount -t vboxsf virtualbox mount shared folder

It is my first time using virtualbox and ubuntu (14.04), I am on a host Windows 7 OS.

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