Inside of a small box: August 2015

sAt last after long time this happen running OS X on VirtualBox, not without off a lot of f....k.
But this post is not about how to install OS X on VirtualBox but how you can access host share folder without guest addictions.
Well if you need help on that this is a good place for start...

http://www.macbreaker.com/2015/01/virtualbox-yosemite-zone.html

My system that I try this is Ubuntu 15.04 as host and VirtualBox 5.0, the guest OS X Yosemite 10.10.1, running AMD Apu.

kernel 3.19.0-23

my system is up to date and VirtualBox 5.0 was a .deb file from Oracle.

The Yosemite inside VirtualBox,

So how to share a folder from host?

We will use smb to get this files on virtual machine, from VirtualBox forum...

Until there is Guest Additions for Mac OS X, you can still share folders on the host with the guest via the network. It is pretty simple:

1) Share a folder from the actual host machine (from the OS itself, not through the vbox shared folders settings)
2) Use NAT for your guest's network settings
3) From Mac OS X, Open "Finder" (looks like a square face, usually on the bottom-left)
4) From the top menu, navigate to Go->Connect to Server
5) For "Server Address" enter smb://10.0.2.2
6) Click "Connect"
7) Enter your username and password (for the host machine)
8) Select the shared folder from the list

This is the method I am using in my Mac OS X guests until the new Guest Additions is implemented.

by paulscode

How to Access Host's Shared Folder from MacOSX Guest

From help.ubuntu.com, open terminal and input one at time

sudo apt-get update

sudo apt-get install samba

if samba is installed terminal will tell you that is installed and the newest,

create a samba password, I have used my root password but is up to you,

sudo smbpasswd -a your-user-name

and it look like,

""sudo smbpasswd -a sony""

Make a folder for share

mkdir /home/your-user-name/folder-name

user name the same as your login and folder name "Yosemite"? maybe.

Backup your smb.conf,

sudo cp /etc/samba/smb.conf ~

and now edit smb.conf

sudo nano /etc/samba/smb.conf

to save the edited file ( ctrl+x ) you will be asked if you want to save your changes, press ( y ) for yes, or trick part ""sudo nautilus"" navigate to /etc/samba/smb.conf and edit and save the file from there as root.

What to edit in this file, is more add... to the end of the file

[Yosemite]
path = /home/your-user-name/Yosemite
available = yes
valid users = your-user-name>
read only = no
browseable = yes
public = yes
writable = yes

restart samba