VM - Shared Folder Windows - Linux
When we work with VMs we need to make files available eg. software binaries, it has a few ways to do that, this post is about how to make share Windows (Host) folders in a Linux server (Guest).
Select Windows folder
From the Virtual Box Menu > Devices > Shared Folder
Select the windows path folder to share within Linux
OK
Mount windows folder within VM
You can chose two options :
1) Reboot the VM (Auto-mount)
2) Command Line
Command Line - mount filesystem in unix
[root@host ~]# mkdir -p /u01/stage/win_ebs_sw
[root@host ~]# chmod 777 /u01/stage/win_ebs_sw
[root@host ~]# mount -t vboxsf Oracle_EBS /u01/stage/win_ebs_sw/
[root@host ~]# ls /u01/stage/win_ebs_sw
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[root@host ~]# df -h /u01/stage/win_ebs_sw
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
Oracle_EBS 895G 494G 401G 56% /u01/stage/win_ebs_sw
Command Line - Make the configuration permanent
[root@host ~]# echo "Oracle_EBS /u01/stage/win_ebs_sw vboxsf defaults 0 0" >> /etc/fstab
[root@host ~]# cat /etc/fstab
# /etc/fstab
# Created by anaconda on Sat Dec 3 13:03:24 2016
# Accessible filesystems, by reference, are maintained under '/dev/disk'
# See man pages fstab(5), findfs(8), mount(8) and/or blkid(8) for more info
/dev/mapper/ol-root / xfs defaults 0 0
UUID=e081dbff-a00b-48aa-9e4a-5c4a1754c7c7 /boot xfs defaults 0 0
/dev/mapper/ol-swap swap swap defaults 0 0
#new fs for oracle
/dev/sdb1 /u01 xfs defaults 0 0
/swapfile swap swap defaults 0 0
Oracle_EBS /u01/stage/win_ebs_sw vboxsf defaults 0 0
Thank you for reading, hope this post was helpful.
Rogerio
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