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buttros

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From: Athens, Greece

Registered: 2019-01-22

Posts: 3

Virtualbox Shared Folder is empty

I have Arch Linux as a guest in a Virtualbox vm and the host is Mac OS. I have one shared folder which it is mounted in Arch Linux and I have access to it, but when I open it,  the folder is empty. It shows no content, which is wrong because the folder on the host is not empty.
I use Virtualbox version 5.22 on a Mac OS computer with Intel core i5. I added my username in the vboxsf but it still shows as empty.
Any suggestions?

Last edited by buttros (2019-01-23 16:51:22)

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nzec

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Registered: 2020-09-30

Posts: 19

Re: Virtualbox Shared Folder is empty

Sorry for the necro-posting but here is what fixed it for me.
Guest additions were apparently not fully installed (even though auto resize and bidirectional copy paste was working).

I first mounted sr0 to /media/vbox (create the folder if it doesn't exist) using mount /dev/sr0 /media/vbox
Then when I ran the guest addition script (inside the /media/vbox folder) using ./VBoxLinuxAdditions.run (this uninstalls and reinstalls the guest additions)
To install linux-headers, I did pacman -S linux-headers and then ran /sbin/rcvboxdr setup as instructed by the Guest additions script
After that I rebooted and then Shared Folder seemed to work.

2ManyDogs

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Registered: 2012-01-15

Posts: 4,648

Re: Virtualbox Shared Folder is empty

The OP has not been here for more than a year.

Closing this old topic.