(In reply to Philip Brown from comment #35) > 3) Install kernel of the day: > zypper ar > http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/Kernel:/openSUSE-13.2/standard \ > Kernel:openSUSE-13.2 > zypper in --from Kernel:openSUSE-13.2 kernel-desktop > > 4) Reboot > > *** At this point vboxsf no longer works. Not sure why. > To get around problem I: > mount -t cifs //10.0.0.1/ds$ /media/llphil_d .... > and that worked. Note that cifs is unstable if drive > is shared out from vbox. I tried this here with your howto (thanks, btw) and it failed because vbox has PAE disabled by default but the kernel is enabling it during boot. So I went and enabled it under Settings->System->Processor->Extended Features [] Enable PAE/NX. It boots fine then. HTH.