Manjaro in VirtualBox- how to mount the shared folder with host without using root

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A shared folder between host and guest works both ways - so why trouble yourself with a backwards mount?

• [root tip] [How To] VirtualBox - Installation - USB - Shared Folder

That said if you really want to do it you can do so with systemd units

• a mount unit
• an automount unit

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• [root tip] [How To] Use systemd to mount ANY device

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You can mount all kind of devices - NFS, SMB, FTP, WEBDAV, SFTP, SSH - using this recipe. Sample files for different kind of mounts can be found in this topic.