I have setup a VirtualBox running on my MacBook Pro (OS X 10.9). This VirtualBox is running CentOS 6.5. I can successfully SSH from the Macbook to the CentOS VM by doing ssh saqib@127.0.0.1 -p 3005
Now I want to be able to access and edit the files on the CentOS VM (under the /var/www directory) using the nice editors and tools I have installed natively on my MacBook. But I'm having trouble doing so.
I successfully followed the instructions here. Now I have a directory on the CentOS VM called /mnt/my_share_name in which I can access files on the MacBook's file system. Great. . but what I really need is the opposite. I want to be able to access files in the CentOS VM's /var/www directory from the MacBook. How Can I do that?? I tried inserting a link in /mnt/my_share_name as shown below. But it didn't work.
# From the CentOS VirtualBox
% cd /mnt/my_share_name
% sudo touch me
% ls
me
% sudo ln -s /var/www www
ln: creating symbolic link `eso': Read-only file system
Just in case anyone is interested, here is a screenshot of the VirtualBox Manager application:
Best Answer
As your provided link says:
In your Guest Linux Box, open a terminal and enter the following commands:
This will make /mnt/share/ your shared folder (meaning if you put files in the shared folder from the host(OS X in your case) it will be visible in /mnt/share/)
You can change this around however you wish, like:
This would place the shared folder in user's home directory. Don't forget to place the mount options in fstab as your link suggests to mount the shared folder on boot.
I would personally suggest placing it under the /media/ folder somewhere as most file managers will automatically pick that up as if it were external media (like a usb flash drive or external HDD, these would be auto mounted in /media/ as well)
To access the folder on your host, when you create the machine folder you select a "Folder Path" that path is to where it is located on your host and where you can access it from.
Update: I do not know why that symlink creation fails, but you should investigate that. As a (fairly ugly) workaround you can do something like:
and change your existing shared directory from /mnt/my_share_name to /var/www after this run
and then reboot. This should basically move all your files from /var/www to the shared folder, and make the shared folder be /var/www.