Some tips around what I experienced:
(1) To share a folder between host and the guest, you need to have the Virtualbox functionality of "Shared Folders" configured. To configure this, please install the Guest Additions for the Guest OS. (The .iso for this is shipped with Virtualbox, and is available as an .iso file under the Virtualbox directory structure on the Host. It is required to mount this .iso directly under Linux). However, Guest Additions RPM would not get installed upfront.
You need to install gcc and kernel-devel RPMs to make this possible on RedHat / Fedora / OEL distributions.
After the pre-requisite packages have been installed, you need to install the Guest Additions RPM.
Using the Virtualbox GUI, then define a shared folder mapping. (eg. D:\Test to the Host and "Test" on the Guest).
Once shared folder is defined, you can mount the shared folder as follows:
# mount -t vboxsf
eg.
# mount -t vboxsf test /test
vboxsf is a filesystem "type" that is sensed by the guest OS after installation of the Guest Additions. Thereafter, verify by navigating to /test that you're able to browse the contents of the folder.
(2) Making files executable on the shared folder: I have seen that unless mounted explicitly, Virtualbox tends to turn off the "execute" bit for files that are not explicitly identified as "executable" on the host OS. chmod on these files does not fix the issue within Linux. To address this, mount the shared folder as follows:
# mount -t vboxsf -o fmode=777 test /test
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