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# VZDirectoryShare

The base class for a directory share.

```
class VZDirectoryShare
```

## Overview

A directory share defines how the system exposes host directories to a guest VM.

Don’t instantiate `VZDirectoryShare` directly, use one of its subclasses such as [`VZSingleDirectoryShare`](/documentation/Virtualization/VZSingleDirectoryShare) or [`VZMultipleDirectoryShare`](/documentation/Virtualization/VZMultipleDirectoryShare) instead.

## Relationships

### Conforms To

[`CVarArg`](/documentation/Swift/CVarArg)

[`CustomStringConvertible`](/documentation/Swift/CustomStringConvertible)

[`Hashable`](/documentation/Swift/Hashable)

[`Equatable`](/documentation/Swift/Equatable)

[`CustomDebugStringConvertible`](/documentation/Swift/CustomDebugStringConvertible)

[`NSObjectProtocol`](/documentation/ObjectiveC/NSObjectProtocol)

### Inherited By

[`VZSingleDirectoryShare`](/documentation/Virtualization/VZSingleDirectoryShare)

[`VZLinuxRosettaDirectoryShare`](/documentation/Virtualization/VZLinuxRosettaDirectoryShare)

[`VZMultipleDirectoryShare`](/documentation/Virtualization/VZMultipleDirectoryShare)

### Inherits From

[`NSObject-swift.class`](/documentation/ObjectiveC/NSObject-swift.class)

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