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We have hit a snag.

I would like to put a document into my instance.

The internet says this is easy, there's a built-in file manager (to VirtualBox) to do this. But it does not work for me.

I discover that to make it go, I have to install "Guest Additions". Okay. There's a menu item in the VM instance manager, VirtualBox VM, under "Devices", "Insert Guest Additions CD Image". I click that, and *poof* a disk image appears on the virtual machine's desktop ("VBox_GAs_6.0.14"). It does not autorun, so I open it. I try running the autorun.sh in Terminal. This throws a "can't find Linux/Solaris device" error. Finally, I double-click on "VBoxDarwinAdditions.pkg". This lauches the installer, which promptly throws an error:
Incompatable OS version detected!

VirtualBox Guest Additions require Mac OS X 10.7 or later running in 64-bit mode.
Well then.

Hrm.

UPDATE: I asked on the support board, and I was pointed at instructions for understanding the networking, and told to just share files like between physical machines. Sounds good to me, but I am going to sleep at a reasonable time tonight; it will have to wait till tomorrow.

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