![]() I do not know why that symlink creation fails, but you should investigate that. To access the folder on your host, when you create the machine folder you select a "Folder Path" that path is to where it is located on your host and where you can access it from. I would personally suggest placing it under the /media/ folder somewhere as most file managers will automatically pick that up as if it were external media (like a usb flash drive or external HDD, these would be auto mounted in /media/ as well) Don't forget to place the mount options in fstab as your link suggests to mount the shared folder on boot. This would place the shared folder in user's home directory. >sudo mount -t vboxsf shared_folder /home/user/shared You can change this around however you wish, like: >mkdir /home/user/shared This will make /mnt/share/ your shared folder (meaning if you put files in the shared folder from the host(OS X in your case) it will be visible in /mnt/share/) >sudo mount -t vboxsf shared_folder /mnt/share In your Guest Linux Box, open a terminal and enter the following commands: >sudo mkdir /mnt/share Just in case anyone is interested, here is a screenshot of the VirtualBox Manager application: Ln: creating symbolic link `eso': Read-only file system ![]() I want to be able to access files in the CentOS VM's /var/But it didn't work. Now I have a directory on the CentOS VM called /mnt/my_share_name in which I can access files on the MacBook's file system. Now I want to be able to access and edit the files on the CentOS VM (under the /var/I successfully followed the instructions here. ![]() I can successfully SSH from the Macbook to the CentOS VM by doing ssh -p 3005 I have setup a VirtualBox running on my MacBook Pro (OS X 10.9). ![]()
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