Kali linux virtualbox shared folders

Kali linux virtualbox shared folders

This section explains how to set up a shared directory for VirtualBox guest Kali Linux with its host system.

To do this, select your Kali Linux VM instance in the VirtualBox Manager and open the «Shared Folders» menu under «Change» in Settings. In the right pane, there is a Plus folder icon that opens a pop-up window to add shared folders. Here you select the desired folder and give it a new name. Activate the checkboxes for «Auto mount» and close the process each time you confirm with «OK».

As you can see in the figure, the shared folder is now below the media directory. If you want, you can bookmark the file manager for faster access.

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  Mounting a host folder in WSL or VirtualBox Kali machine

  Most people using kali won’t use it on a dedicated machine. For Windows users most would use kali from WSL (Windows Subsystem for Linux). Other would use a virtual machine in VirtualBox or other virtualization environment. In this post we will only cover VirtualBox. In this case it can be useful to have a folder on the host machine that can be shared in the kali environment.

  WSL

  In WSL the solution is quite straightforward, every host hard drives are visible in the /mnt folder so a symbolic link would suffice to give direct access for example to an assets folder from the home folder

  sudo ln -s /mnt/// /home/kali/assets

  VirtualBox

  In Virtual box two steps are needed to get the same result

  1. Sharing the folder in VirtualBox

  First you have to share the folder from your host machine in the virtual machine configuration

  

  

  2. Adding the user to the vbox group (if necessary)

  After step 1 your folder is visible in the /home/kali/assets folder and belongs the vboxsf group

  

  In older version of the kali VM distributions, the kali users was not added to the vboxsf group, and when you try to connect to the /home/kali/assets directory, you receive a security error message

  

  If this is the case you can solve the problem by executing:

  and then you have to logout and login again

  

  After next, suddenly your folder shared from your host machine will be available definitively in your home directory!

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  How To Transfer Files From Kali Linux To Windows In Virtualbox

  

  How to transfer files from Kali Linux to windows in VirtualBox

  Now you can share files from windows to kali Linux virtual machines, and vice versa,

  A few years ago, When I was using Kali Linux for the first time I was wondering how to transfer files from Kali Linux to windows in VirtualBox, at that time some useful youtube videos helped me,

  Now things are getting changed, however, there are many ways to achieve the same, no one wants to follow the difficult way, that’s why you have to follow new methods

  Here is the step by step guide to share files from your Windows machine to your Kali Linux and kali to windows

  how to create shared folder in kali linux

  Firstly Open Virtual Box, and at the top, you will notice the Settings option click on it,

  Click on General then Click on Advanced then, change shared clipboard to Bidirectional as shown in below screenshot

  

  

  After saving the settings, you can select Shared Folders from there, or you can goto back and click on Settings then Shared Folders

  You will notice the Shared folders as shown in the below screenshot

  

  

  after clicking the Shared folders you will notice something like this

  

  

  now click on ( + ) Plus Icon and you have to select the folder which you want to make a shared folders and tick on Auto-mount

  

  in my case, I have selected the Desktop Folder of My Windows

  that’s all you have created a shared folder where you can share your files from your Kali Linux Machine

  How to access shared folder in kali linux

  Now the question arises, How you can access the shared folder from Kali Linux,

  My answer is, there are many ways you can, but you need to be a sudo user to access the shared folder

  You can access it through the default file Manager of Kali Linux

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