Virtualbox5 Shared folders LM18 host W7Pro guest

[BarkingGhostar]

Host environment if Linux Mint 18 running Virtualbox5 with a WindowsPro7 Guest VM. Having trouble accessing anything in the host environment from the guest. While trying to research on what I may be doing wrong, I found myself here:

https://www.virtualbox.org/manual/ch04.html

Specifically, this bothers me: "Guest Additions are designed to be installed inside a virtual machine after the guest operating system has been installed."

I am confused because when I installed VB5 right after a fresh install of LM18 I also installed the guest pack and ext pack before I actually created a VM. Was I wrong in doing this? The above quote seems to indicate that the guest pack should have been installed after the VM was setup.

 

[BarkingGhostar]

I figured it out. Seems I installed all add-ons but the guest additions ISO. Got that done and the shared folder showed up immediately in My Computer.