Provide permission to shared location to user – VirtualBox

By | June 1, 2017

For example, our user name is “cloudera”, and we want to give “cloudera” user permission to access shared directory. Below are the commands


$sudo su
#usermod -aG vboxsf cloudera
#ln -s /media/sf_VMSharedDir /home/cloudera/sf_VMSharedDir

Restart virtual machine 

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