How to mount shares inside fedora virtualbox?

leadgolem · #1 29th February 2008, 02:33 PM

I have been looking at the following links.
http://virtualdebian.blogspot.com/20...irtualbox.html
http://forums.virtualbox.org/viewtop...t=share+folder
http://blogs.sun.com/tao/entry/virtu...folder_between

I believe the command should be something like this.

Code:

su
mount -t vboxsf sharename mountlocation

Unfortunately my "fedora in a box", doesn't seem to recognize "vboxsf" or "mount.vboxsf" as a valid filesystem.

Does anyone know what filesystem I should be using inside Innotek VirtualBox for the shares? Do I need to make any other alterations to the command above?

EDIT Another try.

Code:

mount -t auto sharename mountlocation
mount: mountlocation is not a block device

forkbomb · #2 29th February 2008, 04:20 PM

I was having problems with this, too, and eventually decided on Samba shares. This is probably a stupid question, but did you install the "VirtualBox Guest Additions" thingy in the guest? None of those guides mention installing the guest additions, so I have to ask.

If not, try putting this .iso in the virtual cd-rom drive for your guest machine (this is where it is for me - 1.5.6, installed from the official rpm):
/usr/share/virtualbox/VBoxGuestAdditions.iso

Then mount it to a mount point of your choosing in the guest. I think there's a *.sh of some sort in there for Linux guests and an .exe for Windows guests.

If you've already done this, not sure...

The other option is Samba shares, I suppose, which I think is more flexible anyway (run a Samba server on your host and then just mount the share in the guest as if it's remote using mount -t cifs blah blah).

leadgolem · #3 29th February 2008, 06:03 PM

I believe that was the missing step.

Code:

Building the shared folder support kernel module

Now it is sorta working. Here is the command I used to mount it.

Code:

mkdir vbox
mount.vboxfs vbox /root/vbox

I should mention that this was done as root. Mounting it after running "su" in a normal users terminal works too. The reason my virtual machine is logged in as root is that I could not change the ownership of the mount away from root after I had actually mounted it.