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It is especially used for advanced virtualization, not least for servers, in both commercial and open source environments. The Xen Project now works with The Linux Foundation in promoting open source applications. Originally developed by Cambridge University, the staff who created it spun it into a company that was later acquired by Citrix. It is a universal way to enable a shared folder and it should work for all distributions.Xen Project is a free and open source virtual machine monitor (VMM), intended to serve as a type-1 hyperviser for multiple operating systems using the same hardware. If you use some other distributions as a guest, look at the instructions for Debian. So, I will show you the settings for Arch Linux, Linux Mint and Debian as guest systems. In this tutorial, my host system is Arch Linux, but the host system does not matter in this case because we will do all the setting in the guest systems.

Change the user permission for the shared folder.

Install guest additions for your guest system.

There are several essential steps you need to follow, to enable a shared folder between the real machine (host) and the virtual machine (guest): I will also show a universal way that should work for any Linux guest distribution. So, I will show you how to enable a shared folder in Virtualbox for Debian, Linux Mint/Ubuntu, and Arch Linux as guest systems. However, configuring the Virtualbox to share files between your main system and the system you installed in a VirtualBox is not trivial.

VirtualBox is a very useful tool to install operating systems inside the main system.