On Thu, Sep 14, 2023, 13:13 John Jason Jordan <[email protected]> wrote:
> ... snip ... > Before someone takes the trouble to point out to me that to make shared > folders work you need to have VirtualBox, the Guest Additions, and the > Extensions all installed, and each of the same version. Yes, I do have > all of them installed, and they're all the same version. That is, > they're installed in the 22.04 host, but not Debian, because they're > not in the existing default Debian repositories. > . You may not want to try yet another vbox fix, me neither, so to that end I install both vbox + additions from virtualbox.org, not from the distro repositories. Virtualbox.org also host update repositories, so nothing breaks over and over after updates. This (above) has saved me a lot of anxiety, wasted time, ..... anyway. All that said, I believe that KVM/quemu is better choice on Linux. Despite that, vbox is essential for legacy pre-kvm-quemu VMs. Just a thought, -T >
