---
title: VZDirectoryShare
framework: virtualization
role: symbol
role_heading: Class
path: virtualization/vzdirectoryshare
---

# VZDirectoryShare

The base class for a directory share.

## Declaration

```swift
class VZDirectoryShare
```

## Overview

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 or VZMultipleDirectoryShare instead.

## Relationships

### Inherits From

- [NSObject](objectivec/nsobject-swift.class.md)

### Inherited By

- [VZLinuxRosettaDirectoryShare](virtualization/vzlinuxrosettadirectoryshare.md)
- [VZMultipleDirectoryShare](virtualization/vzmultipledirectoryshare.md)
- [VZSingleDirectoryShare](virtualization/vzsingledirectoryshare.md)

### Conforms To

- [CVarArg](swift/cvararg.md)
- [CustomDebugStringConvertible](swift/customdebugstringconvertible.md)
- [CustomStringConvertible](swift/customstringconvertible.md)
- [Equatable](swift/equatable.md)
- [Hashable](swift/hashable.md)
- [NSObjectProtocol](objectivec/nsobjectprotocol.md)

## See Also

### Directory Shares

- [VZMultipleDirectoryShare](virtualization/vzmultipledirectoryshare.md)
- [VZSingleDirectoryShare](virtualization/vzsingledirectoryshare.md)
- [VZSharedDirectory](virtualization/vzshareddirectory.md)
- [VZLinuxRosettaDirectoryShare](virtualization/vzlinuxrosettadirectoryshare.md)