Re: VirtualBox: sharing files between the host and guest OS
On 27/07/11 06:26, Jason Hsu wrote: The little detail I missed: For some reason, you cannot use share as the name of the folder. I changed the name of the folder in the host OS from share to guest, updated the mount command and the Devices-Shared Folders setup, and the file sharing now works. You can't have space in the shared folder name either. Also, under the Shared Folder setting in VirtualBox Manager you can set automount, which is a feature I only noticed recently. Cheers -- Supreme Court says pornography is anything without artistic merit that causes sexual thoughts, that's their definition, essentially. No artistic merit, causes sexual thoughts. Hmm... Sounds like...every commercial on television, doesn't it? You know, when I see those two twins on that Doublemint commercial? I'm not thinking of gum. I am thinking of chewing, so maybe that's the connection they're trying to make. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/4e3010ae.8080...@gmail.com
VirtualBox: sharing files between the host and guest OS
How do I share files between the host OS and guest OS? (Both are Linux.) The version of VirtualBox I'm using is 4.0.8 r71778. Until recently, I was using an older version of VirtualBox and had no difficulty sharing files between the host and guest OS. In VirtualBox 4.0, I have yet to successfully do so. The directory I'm sharing is ~/share under the guest OS and /mnt/host under the host OS. When I enter mount -t vboxsf share /mnt/host, I get the error message /sbin/mount.vboxsf: mounting failed with the error: Invalid argument. The package dkms is already installed in the guest OS. I also installed the build-essential package in the guest OS, but the file sharing still refuses to work. Yes, I have the shared folders set up under the Devices - Shared Folders menu. And both the ~/share folder in the guest OS and /mnt/host in the guest OS exist. So what little detail am I missing? -- Jason Hsu jhsu802...@jasonhsu.com Founder and lead developer of Swift Linux (http://www.swiftlinux.org) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20110726151258.0055ebeb.jhsu802...@jasonhsu.com
Re: VirtualBox: sharing files between the host and guest OS
On Tue, 26 Jul 2011 15:12:58 -0500, Jason Hsu wrote: How do I share files between the host OS and guest OS? (Both are Linux.) The version of VirtualBox I'm using is 4.0.8 r71778. Until recently, I was using an older version of VirtualBox and had no difficulty sharing files between the host and guest OS. In VirtualBox 4.0, I have yet to successfully do so. The directory I'm sharing is ~/share under the guest OS and /mnt/host under the host OS. When I enter mount -t vboxsf share /mnt/host, I get the error message /sbin/mount.vboxsf: mounting failed with the error: Invalid argument. The package dkms is already installed in the guest OS. I also installed the build-essential package in the guest OS, but the file sharing still refuses to work. Yes, I have the shared folders set up under the Devices - Shared Folders menu. And both the ~/share folder in the guest OS and /mnt/host in the guest OS exist. So what little detail am I missing? Have you installed the extpack on the host? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/j0n7ql$8q4$1...@dough.gmane.org
Re: VirtualBox: sharing files between the host and guest OS
The little detail I missed: For some reason, you cannot use share as the name of the folder. I changed the name of the folder in the host OS from share to guest, updated the mount command and the Devices-Shared Folders setup, and the file sharing now works. -- Jason Hsu jhsu802...@jasonhsu.com Founder and lead developer of Swift Linux (http://www.swiftlinux.org) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20110726152620.f7282fd9.jhsu802...@jasonhsu.com
