On Tue, Nov 4, 2014 at 1:31 PM, Kenneth Wolcott <kennethwolc...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Tue, Nov 4, 2014 at 12:17 PM, Kenneth Wolcott > <kennethwolc...@gmail.com> wrote: >> On Mon, Nov 3, 2014 at 7:00 PM, Gregory Nowak <g...@gregn.net> wrote: >>> On Mon, Nov 03, 2014 at 05:23:09PM -0800, Kenneth Wolcott wrote: >>>> Now I can't even get to mount at all :-( >>>> >>>> After I request Device->Insert Guest Additions ISO, it won't >>>> automatically mount (of course). >>>> so I try manually mounting it: >>>> >>>> sudo mount -t auto /dev/cdrom /media/cdrom/ >>>> mount: unknown filesystem type 'iso9660' >>> >>> Hmm, my first guess is that your system isn't autoloading the isofs >>> module for some reason. That isn't a virtualbox issue, it has got to >>> be something specific to your guest setup. >> >> Thank you for continuing to assist even though this is not a >> VirtualBox issue at this point. >> >>> When you do lsmod, does >>> isofs show up in the output? >> >> No, it does not. >> >>> If you modprobe isofs, >> >> What would be the syntax to do that? Looking at modprobe man page again... >> >>> can you then mount >>> the guest additions? If yes, that explains why you couldn't mount it >>> before, but it still doesn't explain why your guest didn't just >>> autoload that module when you tried to mount the cdrom. Now that I >>> think of it, maybe none of the vbox modules on your guest are getting >>> autoloaded, even though they're there. What does this give you: >>> cd /lib/modules/`uname -r` >>> find . -name vbox* >> >> sudo find /lib/modules/3.13.0-39-generic/ -name \*vbox\* >> /lib/modules/3.13.0-39-generic/misc/vboxsf.ko >> /lib/modules/3.13.0-39-generic/misc/vboxguest.ko >> /lib/modules/3.13.0-39-generic/misc/vboxvideo.ko >> >>> Greg >> >> Ken > > On a fresh install of Ubuntu 14.04 server as a VirtualBox guest OS, > I see that isofs is not present, I run modprobe -a isofs, it shows up, > now I am able to manually mount the Guest Additions iso. > > I successfully build the shared folders module. > > Now, I am at the last little bits :-) > > I'd like to have the ability to read and write to this > /media/sf_shared "partition" without having to be root, but I can do > it with sudo if needed. > > Thanks, > Ken
"sudo df" now shows the mount. I can create a file on the host folder and I can create a file on the guest folder but the pertinent file cannot be seen by the other side. Thanks, Ken ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ 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
