Accessing Host Files on Guest - Virtualbox Guest Installation

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I’m unable to access host (Windows) files on my guest (openSUSE 13.2 xfce). I tried to install guest-installation by going into Devices > Insert Guest Additions CD Image - I get network timeout (Acceptable as I access network through password authenticated proxy)

Now I downloaded it manually. The latest being 4.3.20_96996 older than what I’m using now. Moreover I’m using the Virtualbox of openSUSE not directly from oracle. I got following error.

linux-e3gv:/run/media/akash/VBOXADDITIONS_4.3.20_96996 # sh VBoxLinuxAdditions.run
Verifying archive integrity... All good.
Uncompressing VirtualBox 4.3.20 Guest Additions for Linux............
VirtualBox Guest Additions installer
You appear to have a version of the VBoxGuestAdditions software
on your system which was installed from a different source or using a
different type of installer.  If you installed it from a package from your
Linux distribution or if it is a default part of the system then we strongly
recommend that you cancel this installation and remove it properly before
installing this version.  If this is simply an older or a damaged
installation you may safely proceed.

Do you wish to continue anyway? [yes or no]
n

Yesterday I mistakenly said yes to the given question and the os corrupted. So, I had to install the virtual machine allover again.

I think I can write a book on how to corrupt a perfectly working machine. My past - messed with bootloaders, bios, etc

Now how do I access the host files.

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Hi,

you did not damage your suse vm by just removing the guest addition. You just removed the existing guest additions, so window resizing does not work anymore, among othe things such as mouse pointer integration. You cannot have both guest additions installed at the same time so you need to choose and pick one. You can deal with guest additions withouth the X server running.

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I did this mistake the previous time.
I’ve reinstalled openSUSE on vm and have not replaced the guest additions till now.

On first start I got message that the guest additions has been automatically added. But still the I’m not being able to access the host files.

Then I tried Devices > add guest additions cd and got socket error.

At present the host and guest both are openSUSE

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On Fri, 23 Jan 2015 11:46:02 +0000, vish 99 wrote:

> I’m unable to access host (Windows) files on my guest (openSUSE 13.2
> xfce). I tried to install guest-installation by going into Devices >
> Insert Guest Additions CD Image - I get network timeout (Acceptable as I
> access network through password authenticated proxy)
>
> Now I downloaded it manually. The latest being 4.3.20_96996 older than
> what I’m using now. Moreover I’m using the Virtualbox of openSUSE not
> directly from oracle. I got following error.
>
>
> Code:
> --------------------
> linux-e3gv:/run/media/akash/VBOXADDITIONS_4.3.20_96996 # sh
> VBoxLinuxAdditions.run
> Verifying archive integrity… All good.
> Uncompressing VirtualBox 4.3.20 Guest Additions for Linux…
> VirtualBox Guest Additions installer You appear to have a version of
> the VBoxGuestAdditions software on your system which was installed
> from a different source or using a different type of installer. If
> you installed it from a package from your Linux distribution or if it
> is a default part of the system then we strongly recommend that you
> cancel this installation and remove it properly before installing this
> version. If this is simply an older or a damaged installation you may
> safely proceed.
>
> Do you wish to continue anyway? [yes or no]
> n
> --------------------
>
>
> Yesterday I mistakenly said yes to the given question and the os
> corrupted. So, I had to install the virtual machine allover again.
>
> I think I can write a book on how to corrupt a perfectly working
> machine. My past - messed with bootloaders, bios, etc
>
> Now how do I access the host files.

If you’ve got the additions installed, just configure a shared folder in
VirtualBox and then in the VM, do:

mount -t vboxsf [shared_folder_name] [mountpoint]

For example, if I share a directory called OS132 and want to mount it on /
media in the VM:

mount -t vboxsf OS132 /media

Jim

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On 01/24/2015 01:08 PM, Jim Henderson wrote:
> On Fri, 23 Jan 2015 11:46:02 +0000, vish 99 wrote:
>
>> I’m unable to access host (Windows) files on my guest (openSUSE 13.2
>> xfce). I tried to install guest-installation by going into Devices >
>> Insert Guest Additions CD Image - I get network timeout (Acceptable as I
>> access network through password authenticated proxy)
>>
>> Now I downloaded it manually. The latest being 4.3.20_96996 older than
>> what I’m using now. Moreover I’m using the Virtualbox of openSUSE not
>> directly from oracle. I got following error.
>>
>>
>> Code:
>> --------------------
>> linux-e3gv:/run/media/akash/VBOXADDITIONS_4.3.20_96996 # sh
>> VBoxLinuxAdditions.run
>> Verifying archive integrity… All good.
>> Uncompressing VirtualBox 4.3.20 Guest Additions for Linux…
>> VirtualBox Guest Additions installer You appear to have a version of
>> the VBoxGuestAdditions software on your system which was installed
>> from a different source or using a different type of installer. If
>> you installed it from a package from your Linux distribution or if it
>> is a default part of the system then we strongly recommend that you
>> cancel this installation and remove it properly before installing this
>> version. If this is simply an older or a damaged installation you may
>> safely proceed.
>>
>> Do you wish to continue anyway? [yes or no]
>> n
>> --------------------
>>
>>
>> Yesterday I mistakenly said yes to the given question and the os
>> corrupted. So, I had to install the virtual machine allover again.
>>
>> I think I can write a book on how to corrupt a perfectly working
>> machine. My past - messed with bootloaders, bios, etc
>>
>> Now how do I access the host files.
>
> If you’ve got the additions installed, just configure a shared folder in
> VirtualBox and then in the VM, do:
>
> mount -t vboxsf [shared_folder_name] [mountpoint]

Makesure you are a member of the vboxsf group as well.

Ken