Shared Folders on Xubuntu

**linuxyogi** · August 4th, 2012

I have installed Xubuntu as a guest in virtualbox under PCBSD.
I have installed Guest additions on Xubuntu, shared a folder from PCBSD.

My question is how should I access the shared folders from Xubuntu ?

**Toz** · August 4th, 2012

Have a look at virtualbox instructions for sharing and connecting to shared folders at: http://www.virtualbox.org/manual/ch0...#sharedfolders.

Manually via:

Code:

mount -t vboxsf [-o OPTIONS] sharename mountpoint

Although I have never tried personally, there is information there on how to mount it automatically as well.

**linuxyogi** · August 4th, 2012

Code:

$ sudo mount -t vboxsf Documents /home/tux/Documents/
/sbin/mount.vboxsf: mounting failed with the error: No such device

**Toz** · August 4th, 2012

It works here for me, but I'm not using PCBSD. Might be an issue with PCBSD?

Is the vboxsf module loaded in Xubuntu?

Code:

lsmod | grep vbox

**linuxyogi** · August 4th, 2012

Originally Posted by Toz

It works here for me, but I'm not using PCBSD. Might be an issue with PCBSD?

Is the vboxsf module loaded in Xubuntu?

Code:

lsmod | grep vbox

No the module is not loaded. I installed guest additions.

**Toz** · August 4th, 2012

Were there any errors when you installed them? (I believe there is a log file created at /var/log/vboxadd-install.log).

Make sure you've install build-essential and the kernel headers before you start. From a command line:

Code:

sudo apt-get install build-essential linux-headers-$(uname -r)

**linuxyogi** · August 4th, 2012

Code:

$ cat /var/log/vboxadd-install.log 
/tmp/vbox.0/Makefile.include.header:94: *** Error: unable to find the sources of your current Linux kernel. Specify KERN_DIR=<directory> and run Make again.  Stop.
Creating user for the Guest Additions.
Creating udev rule for the Guest Additions kernel module.

Installing......