![]() ![]() ![]() The shared folder is mounted with the following options: ![]() The user within the Linux guest (Ubuntu 18.04.02 LTS) is in the is in the vboxfs group. In my example the user running VirtualBox has full control on the shared folder of the host (Windows 10 Enterprise, 1803). I think this issue is not completely resolved with VirtualBox 6.0.8. I believe OS X guest suffers from the same issue. Yet, these special folders would have strange behaviors under the guest. Many time, users would like to access Documents, Download under Linux Host. A quick search will find many reports of VBox shared folder read-only issues. This applies to Windows 10 as well.Ĭurrently, Virtualbox takes the face value of the read-only bit of shared folders under Windows Host, yet it is not the correct interpretation of read-only bit for Windows directories. For instance, user Documents directory is read-only by default, yet users have no problem to modify files in it. īasically, read-only for a directory under Windows is ignored by Windows, and only used by File Explorer as a flag such that desktop.ini file will be used for folder customization. Please see below for the KB article on this subject. It is a known issue for Windows that read-only bit for directory has special meanings: it does not really mean read-only. ![]()
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