To obtain shared folders, you may also decide to run, either on Windows or Lubuntu, a program named drawterm:
http://plan9.bell-labs.com/magic/man2html/8/drawterm http://www.plan9.bell-labs.com/wiki/plan9/drawterm/index.html http://swtch.com/drawterm/ It connects your host to the virtual Plan 9 machine, and draws a Plan 9 terminal on the host. In that terminal you have access to the host's file system again in /mnt/term Mark.