


When you create a mounted shared folder in your Parrot OS guest operating system to connect with your host operating system, it is added to vboxsf user. When running the command in step 2., only run the below command as a normal user with sudo in front. What does this mean exactly? It means that you DO NOT run the following command before you start. This tends to create problems for people learning to do this for the first time. I know this might sound a bit strange mentioning this, but DO NOT gain full ‘root’ administrator priveleges when you run go to run the below command to obtain shared folder access. Do Not Gain ‘Root’ Administrator Privileges

You can easily delete this shared folder if you want to remove the connection between the guest and host operating systems.Īlso, because Parrot Security OS is Debian based, the following command lines should work with any Debian based guest operating systems running in Virtualbox such as Ubuntu, Linux Mint etc. Why would you want to create a shared folder between a guest and host operating system? This will allow you to transfer files back and forth between the two operating systems. The following are the Terminal commands for enabling a shared folder between a Parrot Security OS guest operating system running in Virtualbox, and a host operating system of any kind, such as Windows 10, Parrot Security OS or Kali Linux.
