VirtualBox

Opened 13 years ago

Last modified 12 years ago

#9732 closed defect

Mounting shared folder automatically does not work — at Initial Version

Reported by: F Scheltens Owned by:
Component: guest additions Version: VirtualBox 4.1.4
Keywords: shared folder Cc:
Guest type: Linux Host type: Windows

Description

I am using windows 7 (64 bits) as a host system, and Linux Ubuntu (64 bits) as guest, latest version of Virtual box. I created a shared folder "Linuxfolder" in virtual box, and checked "mount automatically". I created a folder /home/username/Shared. I added the line to /etc/fstab: "Linuxfolder /home/username/Shared vboxsf defaults 0 0"

The problems i experienced with this were: -Unable to read the folder /media/sf_Linuxfolder (even after adding myself to the group vboxsf), insufficient rights.

-The folder /home/username/Shared was not mounted after booting. Mounting the folder manually DID work correctly.

Workaround: Unchecked the option to mount the shared folder automatically in virtualbox.

Effects:

  • I was able to read the folder /media/sf_Linuxfolder
  • The shared folder /home/username/Shared was properly mounted after boot.

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