Connecting to a Shared Folder with VirtualBox and Windows XP is easy. In the following example Windows XP (TinyXP) is being used to connect to VirtualBox on Mac OS X Mountain Lion.
- On your list of VirtualBox machines choose the windows XP machine you want to share a folder with and then click “Settings”
- Choose the “Shared Folders” tab and then select the path on your host computer that you want to share with the Virtual Machine
- Select the options “Auto mount” and “Make permanent” if you would like this connection to persist
- If your Windows XP virtual machine is running you may need to restart it
- Open “My Computer” and from the “Tools” menu choose “Map Network Drive”
- When the “Map Network Drive” dialog box opens click on “Browse”
- Choose “Virtualbox Shared Folders” and then “\VBOXSVR” and then the name of your shared folder – (VBOXSVR is how virtualbox refers your host machine – opposed to Remote Desktop / Terminal services which refers to it as \tsclient / tsclient )
- Click OK and now you should have your new drive appearing in “My Computer”
