VirtualBox Shared folders

[gtrennert]

Hello,
Ubuntu-10.04.3-server (french)
VirtualBox-4.1.4-74291-Win.exe
I have installed Ubuntu server as guest on a windows XP system
Now I need to get access to a shared folder between the 2 systems.
dkms is installed
I added the vboxguestadditions (but I can't see any effect of this one)

But I allways get an error on the 2 following instructions :

sudo mount -t vboxsf Shared /mnt/shared : "mount : type inconnu de systeme de fichier 'vboxsf'" , means unknown filesystem vboxsf

sudo mount.vboxsf Shared /mnt/shared : Command not found

Can somebody help me to get this work ?

[matt_symes]

Hi

Does this help ?

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Vi.../SharedFolders

Did you reboot ?

Kind regards

[gtrennert]

Thanks for your help !
I don't know very much about the linux filesystem

I tried both :

cd /cdrom ok, but the sh command : sh: can't open VBoxLinuxAdditions-x86.run

and in /media, there is nothing (ls)

So I wonder if there is anywhere the vbox iso
I checked in the VB menu : under devices / CD-Ropm : I see that VBoxGuestAdditions.iso is checked

I must have missed something, but what !

[Morbius1]

Open up VBox then: Devices > Install Guest Additions

This will mount the Additions iso. It should run automatically but if it doesn't it should be under /media/VBOXADDITIONS.....

So:
cd /media/VBOXADDITIONS.....
sudo sh VBoxLinuxAdditions.run

Once you install it you no longer have to do any manual mount it's automatically mounted at:

/media/sf_share-name

You may get an error because you are not a member of the vboxsf group so you will need to add yourself:

sudo gpasswd -a username vboxsf

Then logout and login again.

[matt_symes]

Hi

Do you have it as a module ?

What do these return ?

modprobe -l vboxsf

That is a small L above.

... and this ...

lsmod | grep vboxsf

and this..

cat /proc/filesystems

Kind regards

[gtrennert]

Open up VBox then: Devices > Install Guest Additions

This will mount the Additions iso. It should run automatically but if it doesn't it should be under /media/VBOXADDITIONS.....

This is what I did but there is nothing at all in /media !

modprobe -l vboxsf

Nothing

lsmod | grep vboxsf

Nothing

cat /proc/filesystems

see attached png file

[CharlesA]

I seem to recall that the guest additions require a DE to install.

Also, Ubuntu server doesn't auto mount like Ubuntu desktop does from what I remember. So you'll have to mount the iso manually and then try to install it that way.

[gtrennert]

Sorry but what is DE ?

Can you tell me how mount the iso manually ?

[CharlesA]

Sorry but what is DE ?

Can you tell me how mount the iso manually ?

DE = Desktop environment.

Just mount the ISO in virtualbox then mount it somewhere using mount:

sudo mount /dev/cdrom /path/to/somefolder/

[gtrennert]

OK - here's what I got - in the end something got wrong "...failed"