But it appears that this backporting has not always been performed for each new version of VirtualBox from Oracle Corporation and for each new version of the Linux kernel supplied through openSUSE Leap repositories. So to enable Oracle Corporation’s n to work properly in openSUSE Leap 15.3 currently requires an openSUSE Leap code writer or writers to backport some kernel code to probably produce a Leap-15.3, kernel-appropriate version of n. That is I learned from Larry Finger and/or the Internet that the kernel code in Oracle Corporation’s VirtualBox was apparently for a version of the Linux kernel newer than supplied through openSUSE Leap repositories. However, after upgrading Leap 15.2 to Leap 15.3 I could no longer reliably use this procedure to obtain working VirtualBox Guest Additions in Leap 15.3 with VirtualBox. In Leap-15.2 openSUSE from Jthrough May or so of the year 2021 a usually quite workable procedure for me to obtain working VirtualBox Guest Additions was by executing n from Oracle Corporation’s VirtualBox after installing a kernel update in Leap 15.3 or a new version of VirtualBox in Windows 10. In Oracle Virtual “Machine” (VM) VirtualBox I have since December of the year 2013 had an openSUSE operating system installed as a “guest” operating system or VM. It is a universal way to enable a shared folder and it should work for all distributions.My “host” operating system has been 64-bit Windows 10 Home Edition for a few years.

If you use some other distributions as a guest, look at the instructions for Debian. So, I will show you the settings for Arch Linux, Linux Mint and Debian as guest systems. In this tutorial, my host system is Arch Linux, but the host system does not matter in this case because we will do all the setting in the guest systems. Change the user permission for the shared folder.

Install guest additions for your guest system.

There are several essential steps you need to follow, to enable a shared folder between the real machine (host) and the virtual machine (guest): I will also show a universal way that should work for any Linux guest distribution. So, I will show you how to enable a shared folder in Virtualbox for Debian, Linux Mint/Ubuntu, and Arch Linux as guest systems. However, configuring the Virtualbox to share files between your main system and the system you installed in a VirtualBox is not trivial. VirtualBox is a very useful tool to install operating systems inside the main system.

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