Virtualbox Filesharing

There are several ways for getting your files from the host to your guest system. The first one is with a pen drive:

• copy your files to a pen drive
• unmount the pen-drive (remove hardware safely)
• switch to Virtualbox
• go to Devices --> USB Devices --> select the drive

Now your pen-drive should appear in the file browser.

Another way for exchanging files with your virtual machine is using a shared folder

• Goto --> Machine --> Settings --> Shared folders
• click on the little folder with the + icon
• in "Folder path" click on "other" and select or create a folder on your host
  I called mine "virtualboxshare" (no spaces or special characters!)
• check "auto-mount" and "make permanent"
• reboot your virtual machine
• open the terminal and type sudo usermod -aG vboxsf $(whoami)
• this will add you to the usergroup "vboxsf"
• reboot your virtual machine
• now you should have access to /media/sfvirtualboxshare