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Xi0N

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From: Bilbao - Spain

Registered: 2007-11-29

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Automatically mounting a share in an Arch Virtual Machine

I am installing an arch virtualized system on a windows 2003 R2 ...
The wiki works fine for mounting the shared folders:

# mount -t vboxsf [-o OPTIONS] sharename mountpoint

but i have to do this everytime i boot the system up

How can i make the system to automaticaly mount a folder on every startup?

Thanks!

BTW, i am mounting the share in /mnt/Shared , i think and hope this is correct....

Last edited by Xi0N (2008-12-31 01:16:53)

sirius

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From: Norway

Registered: 2008-12-25

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Re: Automatically mounting a share in an Arch Virtual Machine

Add the mount command to your /etc/rc.local :-)

peart

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From: Kanuckistan

Registered: 2003-07-28

Posts: 510

Re: Automatically mounting a share in an Arch Virtual Machine

Add this to the /etc/fstab in your guest:

share /your/mount/point vboxsf defaults,uid=123,gid=456 0 0

The uid and gid are optional.  Make sure vboxadd and vboxvfs are in the MODULES array in rc.conf, and that should do it.

Xi0N

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From: Bilbao - Spain

Registered: 2007-11-29

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Re: Automatically mounting a share in an Arch Virtual Machine

Thanks!!!