4 Guest Additions
$id
uid=5000(jack) gid=1(other)
$mkdir /export/home/jack/mount
$pfexec mount
$ls
sharedfile1.mp3 sharedfile2.txt
$
Beyond the standard options supplied by the mount command, the following are available:
iocharset CHARSET
to set the character set used for I/O operations (utf8 by default) and
convertcp CHARSET
to specify the character set used for the shared folder name (utf8 by default).
The generic mount options (documented in the mount manual page) apply also. Especially useful are the options uid, gid and mode, as they allow access by normal users (in read/write mode, depending on the settings) even if root has mounted the filesystem.
4.7 Seamless windows
With the “seamless windows” feature of VirtualBox, you can have the windows that are displayed within a virtual machine appear side by side next to the windows of your host. This feature is supported for the following guest operating systems (provided that the Guest Additions are installed):
•Windows guests (support added with VirtualBox 1.5);
•Linux or Solaris/OpenSolaris guests with an X.org server version 1.3 or higher1 (support added with VirtualBox 1.6). The exception is Fedora 9, due to a bug in its X server.
After seamless windows are enabled (see below), VirtualBox suppresses the display of the Desktop background of your guest, allowing you to run the windows of your guest operating system seamlessly next to the windows of your host:
1The X server version is not the same as the version of the entire X.org suite. You can type X
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