[vbox-users] reporting 2 problems with vbox 2.2.2

2009-05-21 Thread JD
Background: Host: FC7 Guest: F10 VBox: 2.2.2 GuestAdditions installed: 2.2.2 Shared Folders: /usr/src shared as src /home shared as home --- 1. Attemptimg to mount the shared folders: # mount -t voxsf home /mnt/home /sbin/mount.vboxsf: mountai

Re: [vbox-users] reporting 2 problems with vbox 2.2.2

2009-05-21 Thread Antonio Augusto (Mancha)
On Thu, May 21, 2009 at 14:28, JD wrote: > Background: > Host: FC7 > Guest: F10 > VBox: 2.2.2 > GuestAdditions installed: 2.2.2 > Shared Folders: /usr/src shared as src >               /home shared as home > --- > 1. Attemptimg to mount the shared folders: >  #

Re: [vbox-users] reporting 2 problems with vbox 2.2.2

2009-05-21 Thread JD
Antonio Augusto (Mancha) wrote: On Thu, May 21, 2009 at 14:28, JD wrote: Background: Host: FC7 Guest: F10 VBox: 2.2.2 GuestAdditions installed: 2.2.2 Shared Folders: /usr/src shared as src /home shared as home --- 1. Attemptimg to mount the

Re: [vbox-users] reporting 2 problems with vbox 2.2.2

2009-05-21 Thread Johannes Kastl
On 21.05.2009 19:28 Uhr JD wrote: ># mount -t voxsf home /mnt/home ^^ Just to be sure: This is just a typie in the mail, you actually had the right command: # mount -t vboxsf home /mnt/home (mind the b) Otherwise: There's a typie in your command... ;-) Regards, OJ -- Co

Re: [vbox-users] reporting 2 problems with vbox 2.2.2

2009-05-21 Thread JD
I have confirmed the seconds problem re: system-config-display is indeed an UNFIXED problem in FC10. See https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=480534 JD wrote: Antonio Augusto (Mancha) wrote: On Thu, May 21, 2009 at 14:28, JD wrote: Background: Host: FC7 Guest: F10 VBox: 2.2.2 Guest

Re: [vbox-users] reporting 2 problems with vbox 2.2.2

2009-05-21 Thread JD
Hi Johannes, on page 68 of the User's Manual, it says: mount -t vboxsf [-o OPTIONS] sharename mountpoint If you change vboxsf to vboxfs, the error is Unknown filesystem type: vboxfs Cheers, JD Johannes Kastl wrote: On 21.05.2009 19:28 Uhr JD wrote: # mount -t voxsf home /mnt/home

Re: [vbox-users] reporting 2 problems with vbox 2.2.2

2009-05-21 Thread Manuel Pégourié-Gonnard
JD a écrit : > Hi Johannes, > on page 68 of the User's Manual, it says: > mount -t vboxsf [-o OPTIONS] sharename mountpoint > > If you change vboxsf to vboxfs, the error is > Unknown filesystem type: vboxfs > Sure, but in your message you wrote voxsf, not vBoxsf.. > Johannes Kastl wrote: >> # mo

Re: [vbox-users] reporting 2 problems with vbox 2.2.2

2009-05-21 Thread JD
Right - just a typo. Manuel Pégourié-Gonnard wrote: JD a écrit : Hi Johannes, on page 68 of the User's Manual, it says: mount -t vboxsf [-o OPTIONS] sharename mountpoint If you change vboxsf to vboxfs, the error is Unknown filesystem type: vboxfs Sure, but in your message you wrote

Re: [vbox-users] reporting 2 problems with vbox 2.2.2

2009-05-21 Thread JD
Just to re-iterate: # mount -t vboxsf home /mnt/home /sbin/mount.vboxsf: mounting failed with the error: No such device Cheers, JD Manuel Pégourié-Gonnard wrote: JD a écrit : Hi Johannes, on page 68 of the User's Manual, it says: mount -t vboxsf [-o OPTIONS] sharename mountpoint If you ch

Re: [vbox-users] reporting 2 problems with vbox 2.2.2

2009-05-21 Thread Antonio Augusto (Mancha)
On Thu, May 21, 2009 at 17:28, JD wrote: > Just to re-iterate: > # mount -t vboxsf home /mnt/home > /sbin/mount.vboxsf: mounting failed with the error: No such device > > Cheers, > > JD Another silly question (maybe a better one than my first one...): do you have a share named home ? For what I g

Re: [vbox-users] reporting 2 problems with vbox 2.2.2

2009-05-22 Thread Jochen Roderburg
Zitat von JD : Just to re-iterate: # mount -t vboxsf home /mnt/home /sbin/mount.vboxsf: mounting failed with the error: No such device JD Hmm, so allow me to also re-iterate some questions ;-) On the Host you have defined a shared folder with the name home? On the Guest you have install

Re: [vbox-users] reporting 2 problems with vbox 2.2.2

2009-05-22 Thread JD
On the guest: # lsmod | grep -i vbox vboxadd62772 0 Sorry, I had not known about the module vboxvfs. So, I had to modprobe vboxvfs manually. The mount now works. So, why was vboxvfs not loaded automatically after running VBoxLinuxAdditions-x86.run? vboxadd was autoloaded, becaus

Re: [vbox-users] reporting 2 problems with vbox 2.2.2

2009-05-23 Thread Jochen Roderburg
Zitat von JD : On the guest: # lsmod | grep -i vbox vboxadd62772 0 Sorry, I had not known about the module vboxvfs. So, I had to modprobe vboxvfs manually. The mount now works. Great, so we had one of this wonderful completely misleading classic Unix error messages here (no

Re: [vbox-users] reporting 2 problems with vbox 2.2.2

2009-05-25 Thread Michael Thayer
Hello JD, JD wrote: > On the guest: > # lsmod | grep -i vbox > vboxadd62772 0 > Sorry, I had not known about the module vboxvfs. > So, I had to modprobe vboxvfs manually. > The mount now works. Could you try starting your VM without manually loading vboxsf and doing # /etc/init.d/