I would be grateful for any help with a problem I have with shared folders.
I am using VirtualBox 4.1.2. I am using VirtualBox for the first time, running a Ubuntu 12.04 Alpha virtual machine in Ubuntu 11.10 host. I have installed the Guest Additions which seem to be working ok except that I cannot get shared folders to work. In the guest os I added the user to group vboxsf. In Devices > Shared Folders I added a share with path /home/colinl (which is on the host) named it host_colinl, checked Auto mount and Make Permanent. I re-booted the guest. I see that it has correctly created the folder /media/sf_host_colinl but it shows as empty (even with sudo) and in nautilus it does not show the mounted icon on the folder. I removed the share from Devices > Shared Folders and added a new one with a different path and share name downloads. This time I did not select auto mount. In a terminal in the guest I created /media/host_downloads then sudo mount -t vboxsf downloads /media/host_downloads and it says /sbin/mount.vboxsf: mounting failed with the error: No such device. dmesg shows nothing at that point, nor does syslog. Google has not helped me. Any suggestions gratefully received. Colin ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Cloud Services Checklist: Pricing and Packaging Optimization This white paper is intended to serve as a reference, checklist and point of discussion for anyone considering optimizing the pricing and packaging model of a cloud services business. Read Now! http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfnl/114/51491232/ _______________________________________________ VBox-users-community mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/vbox-users-community
