On Wed, 2008-05-28 at 19:35 -0500, Rajko M. wrote:

On Tuesday 27 May 2008 02:50:24 am Sampsa Riikonen wrote:

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Dear List,

I have trouble in mounting the shared directories for virtualbox.

---------------------- mount -t vboxsf share /comun/virtualbox/windoze mount: unknown filesystem type 'vboxsf' --------------------- I even tried (after some googling): -------------------- mount -t vboxfs share /comun/virtualbox/windoze mount: unknown filesystem type 'vboxfs' --------------------

.. am I missing some packages / modules? I have installed also the "guest packages" from the suse repo.

I am running 64-bit suse 10.3.

You're missing Guest Additions installed as explained in /usr/share/doc/packages/VirtualBox/UserManual.pdf

It should be installed in running guest OS.

-- Regards, Rajko http://en.opensuse.org/Portal needs helpful hands.

Found the following thread: http://forums.virtualbox.org/viewtopic.php?t=4646&highlight=unknown +filesystem+type see the questions/comments by "vale25". He had a very similar problem. Eventually he says: -------------------- Guest Vista Host openSUSE 10.3 VirtualBox 1.5.6 Shared Folder on host with name btmp and path B:/tmp Linux folder /home/vale25/btmp I suceeded to mount as root on openSUSE with: /sbin/mount.vboxsf -rw btmp /home/vale25/btmp Suggested command above does not work: vasuse:/home/vale25 # mount -t vboxvfs btmp /home/vale25/btmp mount: unknown filesystem type 'vboxvfs' -------------------- With "find" I am able to find a program named "mountvboxsf", but for me it does not work.. --------------------- fl-laina-13:/home/sampsa # /usr/sbin/mountvboxsf share paska /usr/sbin/mountvboxsf: mounting failed with the error: No such device ---------------------- .. there might be something mixed up in the suse 10.3 rpm's ? .. like files installed into wrong directories where mount can't find them? Regards, Sampsa -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org

On Thu, 2008-05-29 at 08:07 -0400, Ken Schneider wrote:

Sampsa Riikonen pecked at the keyboard and wrote:

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On Wed, 2008-05-28 at 19:35 -0500, Rajko M. wrote:

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On Tuesday 27 May 2008 02:50:24 am Sampsa Riikonen wrote: You're missing Guest Additions installed as explained in /usr/share/doc/packages/VirtualBox/UserManual.pdf

It should be installed in running guest OS.

-- Regards, Rajko http://en.opensuse.org/Portal needs helpful hands.

Found the following thread:

http://forums.virtualbox.org/viewtopic.php?t=4646&highlight=unknown +filesystem+type

see the questions/comments by "vale25". He had a very similar problem. Eventually he says: -------------------- Guest Vista Host openSUSE 10.3 VirtualBox 1.5.6 Shared Folder on host with name btmp and path B:/tmp Linux folder /home/vale25/btmp

I suceeded to mount as root on openSUSE with:

/sbin/mount.vboxsf -rw btmp /home/vale25/btmp

Suggested command above does not work:

vasuse:/home/vale25 # mount -t vboxvfs btmp /home/vale25/btmp mount: unknown filesystem type 'vboxvfs' -------------------- With "find" I am able to find a program named "mountvboxsf", but for me it does not work.. --------------------- fl-laina-13:/home/sampsa # /usr/sbin/mountvboxsf share paska /usr/sbin/mountvboxsf: mounting failed with the error: No such device ---------------------- .. there might be something mixed up in the suse 10.3 rpm's ? .. like files installed into wrong directories where mount can't find them?

Regards,

Sampsa

It seems you are quite confused as to which uses this. It is the quest that mounts the filesystem _not_ the host. The guest additions are for the _guest_ *not* the host.

OK! And thanks for clearing my head.. now the shared folder works ok. ;) Regards, Sampsa

-- Ken Schneider SuSe since Version 5.2, June 1998

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