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Accessing shared path in Virtual box

I have a PC with windows in it and Virtual Box with Manjaro i3. So now I went to shared folder in Virtual box and created a path.

I have installed youtube-dl and downloaded some playlist and so I need to transfer folder and files to my windows

I checked the manjaro documentation to install virtual box host modules by below command

pamac install virtualbox $(pacman -Qsq "^linux" | grep "^linux[0-9]*[-rt]*$" | awk '{print $1"-virtualbox-host-modules"}' ORS=' ') 

Now I have rebooted as said in the documentation

Added my user to vbox group
sudo gpasswd -a $USER vboxusers

Now run the below commands to start the service

systemctl enable vboxservice
systemctl start vboxservice
groupadd vboxsf
After starting the service navigate to $cd /media and there you will find the shared folder.

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