1. CREATE A FOLDER ON LOCAL MACHINE WHERE DATA WILL BE KEPT TO SHARE WITH CLOUDERA MACHINE 2.OPEN CLOUDERA VM AND CLICK ON DEVICES -> CLICK ON SHARED FOLDERS -> SHARED FOLDER SETTINGS 3. CLICK ON ADD/+BUTTON 4. BROSE THE FOLDER PATH THEN SELECT THE FOLDER WHICH WE CREATED IN STEP 1 5. CHECK/MARK ON MAKE PERMANENT 6.THEN OK -> OK NOW OPEN TERMINAL IN CLOUDERA VM $cd Desktop $ mkdir <dir-name> $ su $ pwd: cloudera # now to mount the local folder on clouder vm $ # mount -t vboxsf shared shared