If you put something in the shared folder on the host OS, it will be accessible in the mounted folder in the guest OS. It immediately appeared in the public folder of the host OS. Sharing files from the guest OS to the host OS I shared two screenshots taken in the guest OS and put them in the mounted Spice client folder. They will be immediately available in the host OS. In the shared folders, you can create new folders or copy-paste the files. In the screenshot below, I have two shared folder (because I added another one later on). mounting spice client folder GNOME BoxesĮnter this mounted folder and you should see the folder you had added via the Preference menu here. Here, click on the Other Locations option (in GNOME’s Nautilus file explorer). With that set, open the File Explorer in the guest OS.

You can change it to any folder of your liking. Click on it, and it will give the default location of the Public folder on your host operating system. The package you installed earlier was required for this kind of operation.Ĭlick on the hamburger menu and select the Preferences option. You drop the files here and it is transferred to that folder on the host. Here, you use the SPICE protocol to mount a folder of the host OS. This one is not as straightforward as dragging and dropping. Sending files in GNOME Boxes Transfer files from the guest OS to the host OS Just hit the hamburger menu and click on Send File option. The transferred files are saved in the Downloads directory.Īlternatively, you can also send files from the GNOME Boxes menu. Drag and drop files to the guest OS from host OS You’ll see that when you are dragging the file to the VM, it starts showing a ‘Ready to Recieve File’ option. You just have to drag the desired file to the guest OS running in the VM.

Transfer files from the host OS to the guest OS So every time you create a new VM, you have to take care of this package. Remember that you need this package on all the guest operating systems.

Transfer file to vm virtualbox