https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=333657#c1 --- Comment #1 from Victor Marin 2007-10-13 07:05:03 MST --- In Ubuntu 7.04, Virtualbox works like a charm from the beginning. . I prefer openSUSE anyway, as it is better than Ubuntu in quite ways and has better looks too, but I have to say this is the third problem I get trying to use Virtualbox in openSUSE. Ubuntu seems to be easier and "just works" out of the box. In my opinion this should be the very main aim for the best Linux distributions, like openSUSE. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=333657#c2 Martin Kudlvasr changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Status|NEW |ASSIGNED --- Comment #2 from Martin Kudlvasr 2007-10-15 07:24:20 MST --- Just to be sure: which windows do you have installed in your virtualbox? the error shows while creating the shared folder or while adding the shared folder in the hosted system? thanks Martin -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=333657#c4 --- Comment #4 from Victor Marin 2007-10-15 10:43:29 MST --- Just to comment that I got Virtualbox PUEL version to work OK in my openSUSE10.3. Besides the above (also I gave writing access to NTFS partitions by using the NTFS Configuration Tool), I installed the virtualbox-kmp-default AND re-started the computer. Then I have assigned manually a letter to the shared folder in My Network places and now it appears at My PC devices. Now it works like a charm too. Regards, Victor -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=333657#c6 --- Comment #6 from Victor Marin 2007-10-17 16:59:26 MST --- Thanks for your reply. Yes the whole thing works nicely now. But still there is a problem while adding the shared folder in the hosted system. Because i tried to add another shared folder in Virtualbox (I have 2 hard disks on my pc) and, again, same error message displays from Virtualbox: "Shared folder host path '/sda1/<folder name>' is not accessible." And this is the PUEL version of Virtualbox. . I think it is because the path of the folder it's wrongly indicated or there are at least 2 different paths for the same folder (!??). Indeed clicking in the desktop icon of My PC (in the desktop icon of openSUSE10.3, is to say, at sysinfo:/) then right clicking in some device, like "local disk" (my hard disk #1), you can see in properties that there are three ways of going to this same place: Address: /(media) (just that. . ), but mounted in: /windows/C and still the device node is at: /dev/sda1. In this case, the correct folder path (where this device which contains the target folder is actually mounted) it is: "/windows/C/<folder name>". As I said I think this is because the mount point or the folder path it's shown in different ways in openSUSE 10.3: If while adding the shared folder in the hosted system you click in the button media:/ you will get a wrong path for the folder. So you have to ignore the "media:/" indication but to go to /windows/... and find there the shared folder that then will be accessible. I -of course- don't know why openSUSE10.3 has "device nodes" as paths and in addition to the normal folder paths (the paths pointing to where the folders are indeed mounted). But it seems to cause this problem / confusion when trying to show the correct path for a folder. Otherwise, each time I like more openSUSE. . It's a really advanced and polished OS, very likely the most advanced/polished Linux operating system already. I just would attempt at my best it to be -still- more user-friendly when installing programs and to include debian packages too, besides rpm. . Now (off the topic) perhaps Deb. packages will end being standard for all Linux distributions so it makes easier to unite the combined Linux efforts? Or there will be finally a standard package format for all distros? It shouldn't be a major problem to arrive to an agreement on this concern between the different main Linux distributions, so we get easily ALL Linux programs and the developers get shared their programs better and faster. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.