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Configuring Shared Folders
A very useful feature of VirtualBox is Shared Folders. As mentioned above this way you can exchange files between your guest and host OS. Let's see how we can configure it.
Press the Settings button again and go to the Shared Folders Settings. Here click the blue folder (1) and in the pop-up window browse to the location of the folder you want to be shared. Here I have selected my C:\Downloads folder (2).
Of course, you can add as many folders as you want. When done just click ok.
To access this folders from within your virtual Ubuntu machine open a terminal and type:
sudo mkdir /mnt/shared
sudo mount -t vboxsf Downloads /mnt/shared
Replace Downloads with the name you previously gave to your shared folder in the Settings window. Now you can use the File Browser and go to /mnt/shared. There you will find any file which is in your Windows C:\Downloads directory.
