The oracle user was now member of the vboxsf group and therefore had access to the “ /media/sf_SharedFolder” directory.Access to shared folders in Virtual Box Command lineīy default, VirtualBox shared folders are created with read/write permission for the guest.

Therefore I rebooted the VM and I checked again whether the oracle user had access to the shared directory and this time it worked as expected: cd /media/sf_SharedFolder media/sf_SharedFolder access error again I realised that I had to reboot the Oracle Linux VM for these changes to take effect. I tried to access the “ /media/sf_SharedFolder” directory after executing this command… but without success. The command I used to add the oracle user to the vboxsf group was “ sudo usermod -a -G vboxsf oracle“: sudo usermod -a -G vboxsf oracle I chose the last option as I was planing to install most of the packages with the oracle user. The solutions were therefore either to connect as root to install the RPM package, modify the directory permissions to allow the oracle user to access it, or add the oracle user to the vboxsf group. Only user root and members of the vboxsf group had access to the directory.

I used the “ ls -l /media” command to see the permissions: /media/sf_SharedFolder permissions I had previously used the root user to install an other RPM package from the same directory without any issue, the problem was therefore related with the folder permissions. I was trying to install a RPM package I had downloaded from my host computer into the shared folder when I realised that my oracle user had no access to the “ /media/sf_SharedFolder” directory (the default location for the VirtualBox shared folder in Oracle Linux): cd /media/sf_SharedFolder error And in this tutorial, we are going to see how to provide access to a shared folder to an Oracle Linux 8.5 user. An easy way to exchange files between the host computer and the VirtualBox guest VM is to setup a shared folder.

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