Mac host and Ubuntu guest on virtual box shared folder issue

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Published on 2014-08-20T10:30:13Z Indexed on 2014/08/20 10:32 UTC
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I have set up ubuntu server on virtual box on my mac. I created a shared folder which appears to be saved and visible in the configuration section on virtual box for the ubuntu server machine.

My only issue is I don't know where this is or how to access it from inside ubuntu server. Does it get it's own directory or do I have to create some sort of a sym-link? If I do need to manually tell it to look in the mac for the file how do I reference the mac machine?

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