Helping All, One Keystroke at a Time

So I was wondering the other day about how to access the host file sytstem from within a Linux VirtualBox guest. It can’t be that hard as I can access my host filesystem from within a Windows guest that I have using a \\VBOXSRV\share_name at the Windows “Run” prompt. But how do I do this in Linux? I found this thread that tells me exactly how.

mount -t vboxsf [-o OPTIONS] share_name mountpoint
Just use that command above and make sure that you have the guest additions installed otherwise mount will have no idea what type of filesystem "vboxsf" is.