[SOLVED] VBox access shared folder on Ubuntu host from Arch guest

gladiusmaximus · 2012-04-04 02:09:28

I installed virtual box on Ubuntu 11.10
I made a new machine and installed arch with the latest ISO
Everything works fine.
I added a shared folder to the vmachine via the settings panel
I installed the latest Arch Linux snapshot and installed 'virtualbox-archlinux-additions' on a new virtual machine
I added MODULES=(... vboxguest vboxsf vboxvideo) to /etc/rc.conf
I ran

# groupadd vboxsf
# gpasswd -a $USER vboxsf
# halt

This is what the wiki says to do.
then I booted the vbox expecting to see a shared folder,
but /media is empty.

Last edited by gladiusmaximus (2012-04-06 13:58:08)

bohoomil · 2012-04-04 02:23:51

Are you able to mount your shared folder manually, using

sudo mount -t vboxsf share /home/<username>/sf_share

?

Last edited by bohoomil (2012-04-04 02:24:29)

gladiusmaximus · 2012-04-04 22:36:41

# mount -t vboxsf share /home/sam/sf_share
/sbin/mount.vboxsf: mounting failed with error: Protocol error

illusionist · 2012-04-05 12:07:25

try adding user to 'vboxusers' group both on arch and on ubuntu.
make another shared folder , set permission to 777 then mount it in arch.

see if that works.

gladiusmaximus · 2012-04-05 21:52:36

Ubuntu host:

# chmod -R 777 Dropbox
# usermod -a -G vboxusers sam

Arch guest:

# groupadd vboxusers
# usermod -a -G vboxusers sam
# mount -t vboxsf share /home/sam/Dropbox
/sbin/mount/vbox.sf: mounting failed with the error: Protocol error

bohoomil · 2012-04-05 22:25:40

gladiusmaximus wrote:

Arch guest:

# mount -t vboxsf share /home/sam/Dropbox

Just a thought... Check your share names and paths. Above you mount a share called 'share' in a mount point '/home/sam/Dropbox'. It seems a bit weird. If all your permissions are set correctly, modules are loaded and services are started (also on the Ubuntu side), then it may be a name/path related issue.

gladiusmaximus · 2012-04-05 22:39:44

I didn't realise 'share' was the share name.

# mount -t vboxsf Dropbox /home/sam/Dropbox

Success! Thanks guys...

bohoomil · 2012-04-05 22:43:13

That's great. Please, mark the thread [SOLVED] for future reference.

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#1 2012-04-04 02:09:28

[SOLVED] VBox access shared folder on Ubuntu host from Arch guest

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Re: [SOLVED] VBox access shared folder on Ubuntu host from Arch guest

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Re: [SOLVED] VBox access shared folder on Ubuntu host from Arch guest

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Re: [SOLVED] VBox access shared folder on Ubuntu host from Arch guest

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