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Moriah
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 Posted: Fri Dec 25, 2020 11:53 pm Post subject: HELP - virtualbox shared folder problem |
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I am running a gentoo vm in virtualbox on a windows-10 host.
I have installed the virtualbox-guest-additions per the wiki, but when I try to mount the shared folder, I get:
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gentoo ~ # mount -t vboxsf share /mnt/win
/sbin/mount.vboxsf: mounting failed with the error: No such device
gentoo ~ #
[gentoo ~ # ls -l /mnt
total 0
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 6 Dec 25 21:36 cdrom
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 6 Dec 25 21:47 win
gentoo ~ # ls -l /mnt/win/
total 0
gentoo ~ #
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That mount command was the best I could figure from a little pop-up that vbox manager (w10 pgm) gives me, but it looks like a hokey mount command to me. What is the correct mount command?
I would expect mount /dev/<something> -t vboxsf share /mnt/win
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apiaio
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AFAIK, VirtualBox share folders should be mounted as network drives. In my local network I've always been
using cifs. Example:
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Moriah
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I cannot use a windows shared folder in the samba, etc. sense because I have sensitive information in the shared tree; therefore, I must use the vboxsf approach, since it does not go over the network.
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