Hello Ingo, This problem should be fixed in the next release.
Regards and sorry for the inconvenience, Michael On 01/04/14 18:26, Ingo Strüwing wrote: > maybe, I did something wrong. But if someone else gets the problem, here > is a solution. > > Host Ubuntu 64-bit > Guest Ubuntu 64-bit > > Shared folders used to work between these two up to 4.3.8. > After the upgrade to 4.3.10, they were no longer mountable on the guest. > Note that I upgraded the Guest Additions with the first, revoked 4.3.10 > package. When I noticed the missing mounts (after the new 4.3.10 had > been installed on the host), I re-installed Guest Additions in the guest > again, but it didn't fix it. > > The problem was this: > > /sbin/mount.vboxsf -> /usr/lib/VBoxGuestAdditions/mount.vboxsf > > mount.vboxsf is a symbolic link into the directory > /usr/lib/VBoxGuestAdditions, but that directory didn't exist in my guest > any more. In a former release, that directory must have been present. > But now the Guest Additions are installed in > > /opt/VBoxGuestAdditions-4.3.10 > > Creating a symbolic link made the shared folders mountable again: > > ln -s /opt/VBoxGuestAdditions-4.3.10/lib/VBoxGuestAdditions > /usr/lib/VBoxGuestAdditions > > But now I will likely have to re-create the symbolic link after every > install of a new release of Guest Additions as they will go into a > different directory. Would it be possible that some future install > routine sets the link automatically, or fixes the problem differently? > > Regards > Ingo > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > _______________________________________________ > VBox-users-community mailing list > VBox-users-community@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/vbox-users-community > _______________________________________________ > Unsubscribe: > mailto:vbox-users-community-requ...@lists.sourceforge.net?subject=unsubscribe > -- ORACLE Deutschland B.V. & Co. KG Michael Thayer Werkstrasse 24 VirtualBox engineering 71384 Weinstadt, Germany mailto:michael.tha...@oracle.com Hauptverwaltung: Riesstr. 25, D-80992 München Registergericht: Amtsgericht München, HRA 95603 Geschäftsführer: Jürgen Kunz Komplementärin: ORACLE Deutschland Verwaltung B.V. Hertogswetering 163/167, 3543 AS Utrecht, Niederlande Handelsregister der Handelskammer Midden-Niederlande, Nr. 30143697 Geschäftsführer: Alexander van der Ven, Astrid Kepper, Val Maher ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ VBox-users-community mailing list VBox-users-community@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/vbox-users-community _______________________________________________ Unsubscribe: mailto:vbox-users-community-requ...@lists.sourceforge.net?subject=unsubscribe
