VirtualBox makes it easy to share folders between the host OS and various guest virtual machines, but it can be difficult to remember the exact way to go about mounting the shared folder within a guest VM. Here is the way to do it correctly. First off make sure you have installed VirtualBox guest additions. [...]

You may already be familiar with NFS and Samba for sharing files over a network. While these are both great distributed filesystem solutions, they require extra configuration and setup overhead in order to get them to work. If you want quick and easy access to a remote filesystem then SSHFS may be your best shot. [...]