HI.
I am running winXP SP2 host, virtualbox 4.0.4 with opensuse 11.3 linux guest. Opensuse/virtualbox is using a virtual disk on the windows c drive
I can use virtualbox to create a shared folder, but I can’t see this folder from within opensuse. Shared folder has name ‘files’. Successfully created /media/windows under root in opensuse.
fdisk -l only shows the virtual partition.
tried
mount -t vboxsf files /media/windows
and get
mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on files
Updated the guestaddition install. Now get
/sbin/mount.vboxsf: mounting failed with the error: No such device
any ideas?
What else is it supposed to show? You probably have only one single partition in your virtual disk. Everything else you mentionned are not partitions.
I don’t know that fs type either. Maybe you tell me. What exactly are you trying to do? From what I can see here:
- vboxsf is not a filesystem
- files is not a partition
I am trying to follow the instructions from virtualbox at
HOWTO: Use Shared Folders (View topic) • virtualbox.org
Since I am new to Linux, I don’t know what the error is reporting.
I definitely only have one partition in my virtual disk. I want to view external (shared) files on my host system (windows). Virtualbox reports that the sharing is operating.
When linux is reporting ‘No such device’, which mount entry is it refering to?
Interesting. I never heard about that. I don’t know if/how it works. Don’t forget thet you should use sudo before each command and better log in as root in a terminal with su -l and then type the commands shown in the example. I noticed that the posts are from 2009 and the PUEL version of VirtualBox has had a lot of changes since. There is another way to share files from Linux to Windows (using a program called samba on the Linux side), which works on any Linux machine whether it is real or virtual, but that VirtualBox sharing feature is probably simpler in your case, provided it works as expected.