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Adjust the permissions of /path/to/shared/location/VirtualBox.xml so that all of your users can read and write to this file. These commands will copy the configured VirtualBox.xml file to the shared location, back up the existing VirtualBox.xml in ~/Library/VirtualBox, and make a symbolic link to /path/to/shared/location/VirtualBox.xml in ~/Library/VirtualBox.Ĥ. Ln -s /path/to/shared/location/VirtualBox.xml Mv ~/Library/VirtualBox/VirtualBox.xml ~/Library/VirtualBox/ Go into Terminal and run the following commands:Ĭp ~/Library/VirtualBox/VirtualBox.xml /path/to/shared/location/VirtualBox.xml

Configure the VM to be the way you want it.ģ. Put the VM in a place that everyone can access. In the event that someone else needs this, here’s one way to share a VirtualBox VM among multiple users on the same Mac.ġ. Since that was locking out everyone else, this was a problem.įortunately, I was not the first person to run into this issue. Later that day, I get an update letting me know “Hey, we’re having permissions issues.” When I checked the VM, it looked like VirtualBox was giving ownership of the VM to the last user who had used the VM. The VM had been already set up in /Users/Shared/VM_directory_name, so I reset the permissions on the VM so that it was read/write by a group that all the users were in and went off to the next issue. I was asked at work to set a Fedora Linux VirtualBox virtual machine so that it could be accessed by multiple users on the same Mac.