![]() Then just click return and the drive should show. Head over to the platform-tools folder, type in CMD in the address bar, and hit Enter. Now connect your device to PC via USB Cable. ![]() Extract the contents of the USB Drivers ZIP file to a convenient location on your PC. Obviously you need to replace YOUR SHARED FOLDER NAME with whatever the name of your shared folder is, in my case the entry looked like this: \\vboxsvr\Virtual_Shared Method 2: Manually Install Nokia USB Drivers. Now for the bit none of the documentation tells you! Choose a drive letter for the shared drive but instead of browsing for the drive (as you would normally) you need to enter this in the folder field: \\vboxsvr\YOUR SHARED FOLDER NAME Under network it should give you Virtual which is the name of your virtual computer, and it should also give you VBOXSVR, and if you select THAT. Now in Vista, open Computer from the start menu and click the ‘Map network drive’ button. If you by chance shared a certain host folder through Samba and GASF, then you could access the folder through either 'LinuxMachineName' or 'vboxsvr', because both sharing channels are active. These GASFs are only available through 'vboxsvr'. I added this under both Transient and Machine folders. The part I underlined and bolded does not apply to Guest Additions Shared Folders. ![]() Now start your guest machine (Vista in this instance) and choose Devices from the VirtualBox top bar menu.Ĭhoose ‘Shared Folders…’ and click the plus button on the right of the resultant window and browse to the shared folder you just made. You may leave it as is, and share - is the name of the folder youve created on host machine. ![]() where x - is the name of the drive with virtual folded. 2) Boot the guest machine and run the following command: net use x: vboxsvrshare. Here’s how to make it happen.įirstly, create a shared folder on your OSX machine (right-click on the folder you want to share/see in Vista choose ‘Get Info’ from the menu and then tick ‘Shared Folder’) In short: 1) In your VM properties set a shared folder on host machine. I was having trouble viewing a shared folder from the host operating system (Mac OSX in my case) on the guest operating system (Vista).
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