Top DevOps Online Courses from TechRepublic Academy SEE: 40+ open source and Linux terms you need to know (TechRepublic Premium)īefore we continue with the how-to, let’s take a look at a list of some of the major new features to be found in VirtualBox 7.0, which include: Must-read developer coverageĭevSecOps puts security in the software cycleīest DevOps Certifications for Project Managers What do you do when you want to get all those new features for your virtual machines? As you’ve probably expected, the latest version has yet to hit the standard repositories for most Ubuntu-based distributions. VirtualBox 7.0 has finally been released, and this latest iteration brings plenty of new features to the virtual machine software. Jack Wallen shows you how to install the latest major release of the VirtualBox virtual machine manager. Once done fstab will mount this folder at each boot.How to install VirtualBox 7.0 on Ubuntu-based Linux distributions ssh folder to be mounted at /home/chewett/.ssh/ in my Virtual Machine. vboxsf defaults,uid=1000,gid=1000 0 0įor my example above I enter: ssh /home/chewett/.ssh/ vboxsf defaults,uid=1000,gid=1000 0 0

Open /etc/fstab in your favourite editor and put the following line at the bottom. You can do this by adding it to the /etc/fstab file.

Once the shared folder is set up you will then want to request that it is automatically mounted on boot. Configuring Ubuntu to mount the Shared Folder Once this has been saved in the settings interface you can then boot the Virtual Machine and configure it. The folder name will be the name that the virtual machine will refer to. Here the folder path is set to the location on my non-virtual hard drive that I want to mount. To configure this with Ubuntu 20.04 I found the best solution was to not auto-mount it but configure it in the virtual machine. Once done you should have a dialog similar to this which will ask you for the folder path, folder name, and whether you want to automount it or make it read only.

You will want to add a new machine folder by pressing the + button. To do this go into the Virtual Machine Settings and select “Shared Folders”. Once Virtualbox Guest Additions is installed you are able to configure the shared folder. Once done you can continue with the second step. I have detailed the process of installing this on another blogpost which you should first follow. Installing Virtualbox Guest Additionsīefore you can configure Virtualbox Shared folders you will need to install Virtualbox Guest Additions. This post explains how you can configure Virtualbox Shared Folders for Ubuntu 20.04.

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