6/20/2023 0 Comments Virtualbox mount shared folder![]() Hope this saves someone somewhere some headaches, cause I couldn’t find anything about it on the Googles. It turns out that somehow, things got case-(in?)sensitive, and you need to specify the lower-case version of the Shared Folder name: mount -t vboxsf projects -o uid=1000,gid=1000 /home/fboender/Projects/ ![]() Mount -t vboxsf sf_Projects -o uid=1000,gid=1000 /home/fboender/Projects/ Install VBoxGuestAddition 1.1 Load Guest Additions ISO Image 1.2 Mount Guest Additions Image on the server 1.3 Verify the content of the Image 1.4 Install pre-requisite rpms 1.5 Install VBox Guest Addition 2. Mount -t vboxsf Projects -o uid=1000,gid=1000 /home/fboender/Projects/ 5 simple steps to create shared folder Oracle VirtualBox Written By - admin Lab Environment 1. Some combinations I tried: mount -t vboxsf /media/sf_Projects -o uid=1000,gid=1000 /home/fboender/Projects/ This fails on an Ubuntu 20.04 guest with the following error: /sbin/mount.vboxsf: mounting failed with the error: No such device or address ![]() Or with the equivalent fstab entry like this: Projects /home/fboender/Projects/ vboxsf defaults,uid=1000,gid=1000 0 0 In an Ubuntu 18.04 virtual machine in VirtualBox, I could define a Shared Folder like so:Īnd then mount it like this: mount -t vboxsf Projects -o uid=1000,gid=1000 /home/fboender/Projects/ Shared folder on Virtualbox Ubuntu 20.04 guest fails with “No such device or address”
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