Since the mounting of the shared folder has to be done everytime the system is restarted, you can do this automatically after the boot process.

See also Install Linux Guest Additions for a more detailed explanation.Īfterwards the actual shared folder can be mounted.Ĭreate directory where the data of the shared folder should be, for example: home/user/hostĬorrect notation of the foldernames is important Therefore install kernel-source and kernel-syms regarding this link using zypper: Install Linux Guest Additions sudo zypper install kernel-sourceĪnd open an console/terminal in the mounted folder and install the additions. OpenSuse should not be running inside virtualBox.Īfterwards, System preparations and the Linux Guest Additions for the VirtualBox have to be installed in opensuse. How to use the downloaded opensuse.vdi file with VirtualBox is described here: Importing a VDI in VirtualBox OpenSuse already installed for vmware directly to download available here (1,3GB).Since I haven't found, after long searching, information regarding 'How to set up a Shared Folder using OpenSuse in VirtualBox', I decided to summarize the process in here - hopefully it helps some others.

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