Hello Kiran Its easier if you work with machines that have the correct vbox additions.
Give a try to hashicorp/precise64 or have look in atlas for plenty of VMs. The plugin will fix/install the guest additions, after that you should do a "vagrant reload" to have a clean start. Alvaro. On Sun, Nov 8, 2015 at 4:17 AM, kiran sharma <[email protected]> wrote: > I was able to use various features of vagrant to provision a virtualbox but > I was unable to add Vbox GuestAdditions. It fails with the following error. > > what I did? > > I downloaded plugins necessary for guestaddition --vagrant plugin install > vagrant-vbguest > > Based on what I read, we do not need to put anything on vagrantfile for > installing Vbox GuestAdditions it does automatically. So I used same > vagrantfile. > > Fom the log I can see, it tries to install Vbox GuestAdditions but it failed > > > > Failed to mount folders in Linux guest. This is usually because > the "vboxsf" file system is not available. Please verify that > the guest additions are properly installed in the guest and > [i][b]can work properly. The command attempted was: > > mount -t vboxsf -o uid=`id -u vagrant`,gid=`getent group vagrant | cut -d: > -f3` > vagrant /vagrant > mount -t vboxsf -o uid=`id -u vagrant`,gid=`id -g vagrant` vagrant /vagrant > > The error output from the last command was: > > /sbin/mount.vboxsf: mounting failed with the error: No such device > > > > I also found some suggestion on the net e.g > sudo ln -s /opt/VBoxGuestAdditions-4.3.10/lib/VBoxGuestAdditions > /usr/lib/VBoxGuestAdditions > > but this did not fix my issue. Appreciate any suggestion. > > -- > This mailing list is governed under the HashiCorp Community Guidelines - > https://www.hashicorp.com/community-guidelines.html. Behavior in violation > of those guidelines may result in your removal from this mailing list. > > GitHub Issues: https://github.com/mitchellh/vagrant/issues > IRC: #vagrant on Freenode > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Vagrant" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/vagrant-up/ab2def1c-5be4-4f61-8697-291ab86ec3ee%40googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- This mailing list is governed under the HashiCorp Community Guidelines - https://www.hashicorp.com/community-guidelines.html. Behavior in violation of those guidelines may result in your removal from this mailing list. GitHub Issues: https://github.com/mitchellh/vagrant/issues IRC: #vagrant on Freenode --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Vagrant" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/vagrant-up/CAHqq0ewfPDW5P-DDabBDhB7GM-1v%2B7RsoE1QM-FfiJ1qew8qAg%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
