Virtual Box UX improvements

Enabling clipboard b/w host and guest

• In virtual box, Devices>Insert Guest Additions CD Image. This installs guest additions for expanded functionality.
• Under virtual box, Settings>General>Advanced, enable Shared Clipboard.
• If you run into issues with permissions, go to /etc/fstab and add exec permission. To do this, change following in fstab file /dev/sr0 /media/cdrom0 udf,iso9660 user,noauto 0 0 to /dev/sr0 /media/cdrom0 udf,iso9660 user,noauto,exec 0 0. You may need sudo to do this.

Shared folder b/w host and guest

• In virtual box, Devices>Insert Guest Additions CD Image. This installs guest additions for expanded functionality.
• In virtual box, Settings>Shared Folders, add the folder you would like to share between host and guest.
• From a terminal in guest, run sudo adduser <username> vboxsf.
• Restart virtual box.