Another option might be to install Gnome Boxes.... https://help.gnome.org/users/gnome-boxes/stable/
On Thu, Sep 14, 2023 at 12:12 PM John Jason Jordan <joh...@gmx.com> wrote: > On Thu, 14 Sep 2023 14:01:09 -0400 > Tomas Kuchta <tomas.kuchta.li...@gmail.com> dijo: > > >On Thu, Sep 14, 2023, 13:13 John Jason Jordan <joh...@gmx.com> wrote: > > > >> ... snip ... > >Before someone takes the trouble to point out to me that to make shared > >> folders work you need to have VirtualBox, the Guest Additions, and > >> the Extensions all installed, and each of the same version. Yes, I > >> do have all of them installed, and they're all the same version. > >> That is, they're installed in the 22.04 host, but not Debian, > >> because they're not in the existing default Debian repositories. > > >You may not want to try yet another vbox fix, me neither, so to that > >end I install both vbox + additions from virtualbox.org, not from the > >distro repositories. Virtualbox.org also host update repositories, so > >nothing breaks over and over after updates. > > > >This (above) has saved me a lot of anxiety, wasted time, ..... anyway. > > I had already thought of that, but hadn't yet tried it. So just now I > did so, installing 7.0, plus 7.0 guest additions on the host and 7.0 > guest additions on the guest, and still nada. > > But if you notice my reply to wes, I have now successfully logged into > one of my two Synology NAS machines, so shared folders are no longer > worth wasting more time on. Nevertheless, from now on I'm going to > follow your advice and install from Oracle. :) >
