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<refentry id="vboxmanage-sharedfolder" lang="en">
  <refentryinfo>
    <pubdate>$Date: 2023-04-21 21:59:02 +0000 (Fri, 21 Apr 2023) $</pubdate>
    <title>VBoxManage sharedfolder</title>
  </refentryinfo>

  <refmeta>
    <refentrytitle>VBoxManage-sharedfolder</refentrytitle>
    <manvolnum>1</manvolnum>
  </refmeta>

  <refnamediv>
    <refname>VBoxManage-sharedfolder</refname>
    <refpurpose>add and remove shared folders</refpurpose>
    <refclass>&product-name;</refclass>
  </refnamediv>

  <refsynopsisdiv>
    <cmdsynopsis id="synopsis-vboxmanage-sharedfolder-add">
<!-- The 'id' is mandatory and must start with 'synopsis-'. -->
      <command>VBoxManage sharedfolder add</command>
      <group choice="req">
        <arg choice="plain"><replaceable>uuid</replaceable></arg>
        <arg choice="plain"><replaceable>vmname</replaceable></arg>
      </group>
      <arg choice="req">--name=<replaceable>name</replaceable></arg>
      <arg choice="req">--hostpath=<replaceable>hostpath</replaceable></arg>
      <arg>--readonly</arg>
      <arg>--transient</arg>
      <arg>--automount</arg>
      <arg>--auto-mount-point=<replaceable>path</replaceable></arg>
    </cmdsynopsis>

    <cmdsynopsis id="synopsis-vboxmanage-sharedfolder-remove">
      <command>VBoxManage sharedfolder remove</command>
      <group choice="req">
        <arg choice="plain"><replaceable>uuid</replaceable></arg>
        <arg choice="plain"><replaceable>vmname</replaceable></arg>
      </group>
      <arg choice="req">--name=<replaceable>name</replaceable></arg>
      <arg>--transient</arg>
    </cmdsynopsis>
  </refsynopsisdiv>

  <refsect1 id="vboxmanage-sharedfolder-description">
    <title>Description</title>
    <para>
      Shared folders enable you to share data between the host system
      and guests. To use shared folders, you must first install the
      &product-name; Guest Additions software on the guest OS.
    </para>
    <para>
      The shared folder is associated with a share name and the full
      path name of the folder or directory on the host system. The share
      name is a unique name within the namespace of the host OS.
    </para>
    <refsect2 id="vboxmanage-sharedfolder-add">
      <title>Add a Shared Folder</title>
      <remark role="help-copy-synopsis"/>
      <para>
        The <command>VBoxManage sharedfolder add</command> command
        creates a shared folder. The folder you specify is on the host
        computer. When configured, the contents of the folder on the
        host system can be shared with the guest OS.
      </para>
      <variablelist>
        <varlistentry>
          <term><option><replaceable>uuid</replaceable> | <replaceable>vmname</replaceable></option></term>
          <listitem><para>
              Specifies the name or UUID of the guest VM that shares a
              folder with the host system.
            </para></listitem>
        </varlistentry>
        <varlistentry>
          <term>--name=<replaceable>name</replaceable></term>
          <listitem><para>
              Specifies the name of the share, which is a unique name
              within the namespace of the host OS.
            </para></listitem>
        </varlistentry>
        <varlistentry>
          <term>--hostpath=<replaceable>hostpath</replaceable></term>
          <listitem><para>
              Specifies the absolute path of the folder or directory on
              the host OS to share with the guest OS.
            </para></listitem>
        </varlistentry>
        <varlistentry>
          <term>--readonly</term>
          <listitem><para>
              Specifies that the share has only read-only access to
              files at the host path.
            </para><para>
              By default, shared folders have read-write access to the
              files at the host path. However on Linux distributions,
              shared folders are mounted with 770 file permissions with
              the <literal>root</literal> user and the
              <literal>vboxsf</literal> group. By using this option, the
              file permissions become 700.
            </para></listitem>
        </varlistentry>
        <varlistentry>
          <term>--transient</term>
          <listitem><para>
              Specifies that the share is transient, which means that it
              can be added and removed at runtime and does not persist
              after the VM stops.
            </para></listitem>
        </varlistentry>
        <varlistentry>
          <term>--automount</term>
          <listitem><para>
              Specifies that the share is automatically mounted.
            </para></listitem>
        </varlistentry>
        <varlistentry>
           <term>--auto-mount-point=<replaceable>path</replaceable></term>
           <listitem><para>
               Specifies the mount point of the share.  This guest OS specific.
             </para><para>
               For Windows and OS/2 guest this must be an unused drive letter.
               If left blank (or if the drive letter is already in use), the
               last unused drive letter is used instead (i.e. searching from
               <literal>Z:</literal> thru <literal>A:</literal>).
             </para><para>
               For Linux, Solaris and other unix guest, it must be an absolute
               path like <filename>/mnt/mysharedfolder</filename>.  If left
               empty the default location is
               <filename>/media/sf_<replaceable>sharename</replaceable></filename>.
             </para></listitem>
        </varlistentry>
      </variablelist>
    </refsect2>
    <refsect2 id="vboxmanage-sharedfolder-remove">
      <title>Remove a Shared Folder</title>
      <remark role="help-copy-synopsis"/>
      <para>
        The <command>VBoxManage sharedfolder remove</command> command
        removes a shared folder.
      </para>
      <variablelist>
        <varlistentry>
          <term><option><replaceable>uuid</replaceable> | <replaceable>vmname</replaceable></option></term>
          <listitem><para>
              Specifies the name or UUID of the guest VM that shares a
              folder with the host system.
            </para></listitem>
        </varlistentry>
        <varlistentry>
          <term>--name=<replaceable>name</replaceable></term>
          <listitem><para>
              Specifies the name of the share to remove.
            </para></listitem>
        </varlistentry>
        <varlistentry>
          <term>--transient</term>
          <listitem><para>
              Specifies that the share is transient, which means that it
              can be added and removed at runtime and does not persist
              after the VM stops.
            </para></listitem>
        </varlistentry>
      </variablelist>
    </refsect2>
  </refsect1>

  <refsect1 id="vboxmanage-sharedfolder-examples">
    <title>Examples</title>
    <remark role="help-scope" condition="GLOBAL" />
    <para>
      The following command creates a shared folder called
      <filename>o7share</filename> for the <filename>ol7</filename> VM.
      The share is mounted automatically when the VM is started.
    </para>
<screen>$ VBoxManage sharedfolder add ol7 --name ol7share --hostpath "/home/user/ol7share" --automount</screen>
    <para>
      The following command removes the shared folder called
      <filename>o7share</filename> for the <filename>ol7</filename> VM.
    </para>
<screen>$ VBoxManage sharedfolder remove ol7 --name ol7share</screen>
  </refsect1>
</refentry>