VirtualBox Shared folders

[gtrennert]

on modprobe -l vboxsf I now get :
updates/dkms/vboxsf.ko

on lsmod | grep vboxsf I now get :
vboxsf 35947 0
vboxguest 196072 2 vboxsf

on cat /proc/filesystems I now get 2 more lines :
iso9660
nodev vboxsf

[CharlesA]

Try connecting to the share manually - it should work now.

mount -t vboxsf sharename /path/to/mountpoint

[matt_symes]

Hi

on modprobe -l vboxsf I now get :
updates/dkms/vboxsf.ko

on lsmod | grep vboxsf I now get :
vboxsf 35947 0
vboxguest 196072 2 vboxsf

on cat /proc/filesystems I now get 2 more lines :
iso9660
nodev vboxsf

That looks a lot better. Follow CharlesA's advice and manually mount and you should be good to go.

Kind regards

[gtrennert]

OK Nice - thank you so much - so I followed your new advice :
mount -t vboxsf partagevb /mnt
(I don't know if /mnt is a good idea but Idon't know very much about the linux filesystem)
I thought that now I would find the shared folder in /mnt, but there is only 'cdrom' - which seems to be empty

When I have a look at mount I see this entry at the end :
partagevb on media/sf_partagevb type vboxsf (gid=1001,rw)

But :
cd /media/sf_partagevb => Permission non accordée
sudo cd /media/sf_partagevb => cd : command not found
sudo ls /media/sf_partagevb => Here I can see the file that I have copied in windows in the shared folder

So I think the shared folder is there, I only don't know how to get easy access to this folder (for exemple to decompress the file etc)

cd /media

[CharlesA]

uid and guid should be 1000.

[Morbius1]

So I think the shared folder is there, I only don't know how to get easy access to this folder (for exemple to decompress the file etc)

Are you or are you not using a desktop environment on this server - Gnome?

uid and guid should be 1000.

VBox starting with Version 4 will automatically mount these shares to "/media/sf_whatever" with root as owner and group as vboxsf. The gid of vboxsf is 1001. There is no longer any need to mount these shares manually or through fstab.

[CharlesA]

VBox starting with Version 4 will automatically mount these shares to "/media/sf_whatever" with root as owner and group as vboxsf. The gid of vboxsf is 1001. There is no longer any need to mount these shares manually or through fstab.

Oh thanks. Good to know.

[gtrennert]

There is no desktop environment installed on this server - should I ?
Now my question is how to easily access the shared folder on the command line ...

[Morbius1]

We all do seem to be avoiding that question don't we.

Well in this universe it would be something like this:

 cd /media/sf_partagevb

But when you do it you get this:

cd /media/sf_partagevb => Permission non accordée

Which I believe is "Permission denied"

So my guess is that you are not a member of the vboxsf group. To fix that:

sudo gpasswd -a your-user-name vboxsf

Then you will have to logout ( of the VBox guest ) and login again for the group membership to take affect.

[gtrennert]

Thanks for all your help !
Now I can go on to other subjects ...