I couldn't get the shared folder to work, but I found a workaround, at least for copying files from the host to the virtual machine - created an ISO file with and mounted the ISO as an optical disk in the virtual machine (also Windows 7 in my case).
I couldn't get the shared folder to work, but I found a workaround, at least for copying files from the host to the virtual machine - created an ISO file with and mounted the ISO as an optical disk in the virtual machine (also Windows 7 in my case).