Before you implement these steps on your VM, make sure that you have: However, with little effort I worked out these issues. I followed the steps provided from various help articles, but they were quite tricky and not straightforward and easy to implement. It needs some steps before you can use host drives and folders (and surely all the files contained in them).

However, sharing host drivesolders might not be as simple as clicking and enabling sharing. VM does not provide usage of host drives/folders on Guest OS until they are explicitly shared. Once downloaded, setup a Guest OS (for which you can follow VM VirtualBox's provided instructions - installing Guest OS is not discussed here). One of these free VM managers is Oracle's VM VirtualBox, which can be downloaded from Oracle's website for all popular operating systems, such as Linux, Windows and Mac. Most people like to get free VM managers, so that they can install as many operating systems as they like over the host operating systems. However, the main functionality of all VMs are the same.

There are several virtual machine managers present in the market.

Oracle virtualbox shared folder