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Mounting VirtualBox shared folders on Ubuntu Server 18.04 LTS (Bionic Beaver)

This guide will walk you through the steps on how to setup a VirtualBox shared folder inside your Ubuntu Server guest.

Prerequisites

This guide assumes that you are using the following setup:

Oracle VM VirtualBox version 6.0.10 with Extension Pack installed
Microsoft Windows 7 SP1 as the host OS
A fresh install of Ubuntu Server 18.04.2 LTS as the guest OS

You could still make this guide work with other setups (possibly with some modifications to the commands and whatnot).

The code below was used to generate the video countdown timers that are available in the following playlist using ffmpeg:

#This example will create a 3 second video, with 100 frames per second and it will print the elapsed and remaining times using a two second accuracy.
fps=100;
seconds=3;
mantissaDigits=2;
upperFont=600;
lowerFont=100;
ffmpeg -loop 1 -i ~/Pictures/Black-Background.png -c:v libx264 -r $fps -t $seconds -pix_fmt yuv420p -vf "fps=$fps,drawtext=fontfile='/usr/share/fonts/urw-base35/C059-Bold.otf':fontcolor=yellow:fontsize=$upperFont:x=(w-text_w)/2:y=(h-text_h)/2:text='%{eif\:($seconds-t)\:d}.%{eif\:(mod($seconds-t, 1)*pow(10,$mantissaDigits))\:d\:$mantissaDigits}',drawtext=fontfile='/usr/share/fonts/urw-base35/C059-Bold.otf':fontcolor=yellow:fontsize=$lowerFont:x=(w-text_w)/2:y=((h-text_h)/2)+$upperFont:text='Elapsed\: %{eif\:(t)\:d}.%{eif\:(mod(t, 1)*pow(10,$mantissaDigits))\:d\:$mantissaDigits}'" "$seconds seconds countdown timer.mp4";

On Mac OS (host):

Shutdown your VM and do:

VirtualBox > Settings > Network > Add (you will get vboxnet0)

On a terminal ifconfig will show you new interface vboxnet0

VM's Settings > System > check "Enable I/O APIC." VM's Settings > Network > Adapter 2 > host-only vboxnet0

	# Take backup of iptables
	cp /etc/iptables/rules.v4 /etc/iptables/rules.v4.backup
	cp /etc/iptables/rules.v6 /etc/iptables/rules.v6.backup

	# Flush rules
	iptables -F
	iptables -X
	iptables -t nat -F
	iptables -t nat -X
	iptables -t mangle -F

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	module.exports = {
	config: {
	// default font size in pixels for all tabs
	fontSize: 12,

	// font family with optional fallbacks
	fontFamily: 'Menlo, "DejaVu Sans Mono", Consolas, "Lucida Console", monospace',

	// terminal cursor background color and opacity (hex, rgb, hsl, hsv, hwb or cmyk)
	cursorColor: 'rgba(248,28,229,0.8)',