For a host-to-guest only transfer, create an ISO image (some CD burners on Linux let you turn a folder into an ISO file instead of burning to disk you'd select your folder, right-click 'burn to disk' and on the burn:/// URI the button to actually burn would pop up a window where one option is to make an ISO instead.

Create a floppy disk image you attach to the VM to copy files to/from, then detach it from the VM and mount it as a loopback device on the host OS to access files.

If the networking works, try an FTP server you can connect to from within the virtual machine.

VirtualBox Guest Additions don't support any version of Windows older than Windows 2000/XP, so shared folders won't work.

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If you have another machine with a working install of DOS, you can pretty much do as foxidrive suggested and transfer the boot files to the hard drive (so it starts up). (the second two would not need to be bootable, btw). Best approximation would as you considered, actually use a complete disc for each floppy (with the appropriate label) in addition to the use of a CD-ROM driver on the first one to get access to the drive. Anyway, the main issue here is that the DOS setup (iirc) goes by volume label.

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