Gregory Nowak wrote: > On Sun, Mar 29, 2009 at 04:56:19PM +0300, Angel Tsankov wrote: >> My question is how I can make use of shared folders from a live >> Linux guest. > > You should be able to do that just like you would from a linux guest > residing on a hard drive. I think the shared folder support module is > vboxfs.ko, but don't quote me on that, since I'm not booted into a > gnu/linux guest now, and I don't recall for sure off the top of my > head. So, you'd modprobe the vboxfs module, assuming that's what it's > called, and mount your share as described in the manual. > > I think the guest additions install script says you need to reboot to > simplify the guest additions start procedure, instead of having the > user figure out what to start, and how. What I'm saying is that I > don't think it's actually necessary to reboot, if you know how to > start things up. I do stand to be corrected on that of course. > After installing (or more precisely -- building) the guest additions, I managed to mount a shared folder in a Linux guest by executing '/etc/init.d/vboxadd start' and then calling the '/sbin/mount.vboxsf' command.
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