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+<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?>
+<!DOCTYPE topic PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DITA Topic//EN" "topic.dtd">
+<topic xml:lang="en-us" id="guestadd-gc-file-manager-using">
+ <title>Using the Guest Control File Manager</title>
+
+ <body>
+ <p>
+ The following steps describe how to use the Guest Control File
+ Manager.
+ </p>
+ <ol>
+ <li>
+ <p>
+ Open the Guest Control File Manager. Do either of the
+ following:
+ </p>
+ <ul>
+ <li>
+ <p>
+ In the guest VM, select
+ <b outputclass="bold">Machine</b>,
+ <b outputclass="bold">File Manager</b>.
+ </p>
+ </li>
+ <li>
+ <p>
+ In VirtualBox Manager, click on the machine name. Click
+ <b outputclass="bold">File Manager</b> in the
+ machine tools menu for the VM.
+ </p>
+ </li>
+ </ul>
+ <p>
+ The left pane shows the files on the host system.
+ </p>
+ </li>
+ <li>
+ <p>
+ Create a guest session.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ At the bottom of the Guest Control File Manager, enter
+ authentication credentials for a user on the guest system.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ Click <b outputclass="bold">Create Session</b>.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ The contents of the guest VM file system appears in the
+ right pane of the Guest Control File Manager.
+ </p>
+ </li>
+ <li>
+ <p>
+ Transfer files between the guest and the host system by
+ using the move and copy file transfer icons.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ You can copy and move files from the guest to the host
+ system or from the host system to the guest.
+ </p>
+ </li>
+ <li>
+ <p>
+ Close the Guest Control File Manager.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ Click <b outputclass="bold">Close</b> to end the
+ guest session.
+ </p>
+ </li>
+ </ol>
+ </body>
+
+</topic>