Yes, I had been using these shared folders for a couple of years now, and they were set up automount and writable. In diagnosing things, I also tried manually mounting a transient shared folder. I had the same result, i.e., the host shared folder contents would not appear. Only moving my VirtualBox to version 4.3.0 solved things.
On Fri, Oct 18, 2013 at 4:10 PM, Andre Rodovalho <[email protected]>wrote: > You were using automount option? > > > 2013/10/18 Dale Visser <[email protected]> > >> This may be of general interest to users of other Ubuntu 3.10 variants as >> well. The following is copied from my blog post at http://bit.ly/177408M: >> >> Yesterday, I upgraded my Ubuntu Gnome 13.04 (64-bit) virtual machine to >> Lubuntu 13.10. I rely on the VirtualBox Shared Folders feature to keep my >> git repositories in sync with bare copies on network drives at my >> workplace. (My Host OS is Windows 7, and my workplace IT infrastructure is >> Windows-based.) >> >> To my horror, today I discovered I could not access my shared folders >> from my new Guest OS. I even created a “clean” new Lubuntu 13.10 guest >> machine, which exhibited the same issue. (Yes, I carefully performed the >> dance of apt-get update, upgrade, install dkms, install guest additions, >> and rebooting after each install.) So I knew it wasn’t an issue with the >> upgrade process. >> >> Then, I remembered that the other day, I saw an Oracle announcement that >> VirtualBox 4.3.0 had been released. I’m running version 4.2.18. Sure >> enough, upgrading to the latest VirtualBox, and installing its Guest >> Additions solved the issue. I’m assuming there have been changes in the >> Linux Kernel (Ubuntu 13.10 is running the 3.11 kernel) that necessitated >> updates to Guest Additions. >> >> >> -- >> Lubuntu-users mailing list >> [email protected] >> Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/** >> mailman/listinfo/lubuntu-users<https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/lubuntu-users> >> > > -- "A Person Becomes Old When His Mind Is More Occupied by Memories Than Aspirations"<http://feeds.gawker.com/~r/lifehacker/full/~3/seL_lf1dzSc/a-person-becomes-old-when-his-mind-is-more-occupied-by-memories-than-aspirations>
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