Accessing your VBox Windows host drives in Mageia 3
Posted: May 25th, '13, 00:55Hello, Mageia 3 is so far working correctly in Virtual Box 4.2.12 with the display and sound working right out of the box on my AMD 6870 video and Core-i5 660 with Intel chipset motherboard. The only thing not working was a permissions denied error accessing my 2 Windows 7 host partitions. To solve this easily do the following:
1. Go to the Mageia Control Center
2. In the Control Center choose System, Manage Users on System
3. double click on your {user name}
4. In the Edit Group/Users window select the Groups tab.
5. Scroll down to near the bottom and check the vboxsf group
6. Click Ok.
7. Shut down and restart Mageia 3 in VBox.
You can now go to /root/media and double click on the host drives you set up as shares when you installed Mageia 3 in Virtual Box. You can then create a symbilic link to them in your home directory for easy access.
1. Go to the Mageia Control Center
2. In the Control Center choose System, Manage Users on System
3. double click on your {user name}
4. In the Edit Group/Users window select the Groups tab.
5. Scroll down to near the bottom and check the vboxsf group
6. Click Ok.
7. Shut down and restart Mageia 3 in VBox.
You can now go to /root/media and double click on the host drives you set up as shares when you installed Mageia 3 in Virtual Box. You can then create a symbilic link to them in your home directory for easy access.