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Alex44

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Registered: 2015-06-17

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shared folder within VirtualBox with arch linux as guest

Hello,

I'm new with archLinux and try to setup my shared folders between host and guest.

first I look for the kernel modules loaded:

# lsmod | grep vs
vboxvideo       16384   0
drm                282624  2  vboxvideo
vboxsf              45056  0
vboxguest          208896  1  vboxsf

on the host I setup a folder path/vbshare an try to mount them inside the guest with

~$ mount -t vboxsf vbshare /mnt/vbshare
mount wrong fs type bad option bad superblock
....
# dmesg | tail
...
[  1320.117014] sf_read_super_aux err=-22
[  3310.304804] sf_read_super_aux err=-22

I found out that mount.vboxsf (the pendant to mount -t vboxsf) command not found.

I followed or read the references below:
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Vi … nux_guests
https://www.virtualbox.org/manual/ch04. … redfolders
https://forums.virtualbox.org/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=25295

I don't knwo where I can find the right solution.

Thank for your help
Nice regards
Alex

Last edited by Alex44 (2015-06-17 22:19:20)

jasonwryan

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Re: shared folder within VirtualBox with arch linux as guest

Not an Installation issue, moving to NC...

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toz

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Re: shared folder within VirtualBox with arch linux as guest

I found out that mount.vboxsf (the pendant to mount -t vboxsf) command not found.

Do you have virtualbox-guest-utils installed in the guest? It provides mount.vboxsf.

Alex44

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Registered: 2015-06-17

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Re: shared folder within VirtualBox with arch linux as guest

Yes I have

Should I reinstall the package?

Edit:
At the moment pacman isn't able to download all sources, so I will try it tomorrow again. Maybe this were the fault I hav't recogniced bevore.

Last edited by Alex44 (2015-06-17 23:06:03)

Alex44

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Re: shared folder within VirtualBox with arch linux as guest

I tried to install xorg-server and pacman can't load the package xorg-common:

# pacman -S xorg-server
.....
Error: Can't load file 'xorg-server-common-1.17.1-7-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz' from ftp.uni-bayreuth.de: The requested URL returned error: 404
...

What can I do now?

EDIT:
I found that on the ftp-servers only this version exists:
xorg-server-common-1.17.2-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz

Last edited by Alex44 (2015-06-18 09:02:29)

jasonwryan

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Re: shared folder within VirtualBox with arch linux as guest

pacman -Syyu

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Alex44

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Re: shared folder within VirtualBox with arch linux as guest

PERFECT

Now all things are ok.

I see I'm still not really familiar with  pacman! There I have to do something.

Thanks for your patience and help.

Alex