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Thanks Perry.

I did what you said and FINALLY everything is working. I feel like an idiot, I was digging too deep for something that Sun actually makes quite simple.

thanks very, very much for your help!!

Rich

>> Did you uninstall the OSE guest additions and install the PUEL additions in the guest? >> As I said you can not mix these versions. It must be the same in both. I may have - I've done so many thing trying to get this to work, I'm near to being burned out :-) So - I'll remove the OSE stuff (again)...

>>You can not mix PUEL and OSE

OH! So - I should be using PUEL (whatever that is...) not OSE.

How do I know which oine I'm using? I saw no references to PUEL in synaptic.

thanks,
Rich

A note here regarding the screen problems some folks are having. I had the same thing until I installed the guest additions version 3.1.6 (ose) in ubuntu. I've done this both through synaptic and using apt-get from the command line. Both worked the same. I now can resize the screen, use seamless mod...

First - thanks for the replies regarding my drive mount problem. VERY much appreciated. >> Surely this is just simply a case of the sharename being the same as the mount point? They need to be different. Well, this is what I had before (Ubuntu 9.xx guest) and it mounted without a hitch. about the OS...

well...here's the latest!! I ran the install of 3.1.7 virtual box guest from the ISO file it looked like it installed ok BUT when i did an dpkg -l all that was listed is 3.1.6 packages... ??? SO - I un-installed all the virtual box packages using apt-get remove. Then did an install of all the packag...

are you using guest additions v 3.1.6 or 3.1.7.

I just installed 3.1.7 hoping it would make a difference but it didn't seem to.

Rich

thanks.

here's what I get:

rich@rich-laptop:/etc$ sudo -i
root@rich-laptop:~# mkdir /mnt/source
root@rich-laptop:~# mount -t vboxsf source /mnt/source
/sbin/mount.vboxsf: mounting failed with the error: No such device
root@rich-laptop:~#

The windows path is c:\source and I map it to /source in UBUNTU.
here's the command I use:

sudo mount -t vboxsf source /source

No...I'm trying anything I can to get my share mounted. I thought maybe the GA wasn't getting loaded so I tried to start it manually. Maybe this is not the right approach? I use "seamless" mode and that is now working great. Still can't mount my share though... also - got this from dmesg: ...

Well...I restarted and it didn't seem to help.
Still geting:

/etc/init.d$ sudo ./vboxadd start
Starting the VirtualBox Guest Additions ...fail!
(modprobe vboxvfs failed)

Thanks! I ran this and got the following output. sudo /etc/init.d/vboxadd setup Removing old VirtualBox vboxvideo kernel module ...done. Removing old VirtualBox vboxvfs kernel module ...done. Removing old VirtualBox vboxguest kernel module ...done. Building the VirtualBox Guest Additions kernel modu...

I've been running Ubuntu 9.xx guest using virtualbox 3.1.6 with Windows 7 host for a while now. Last week I upgraded to Ubuntu 10.04. Everything seems to be great except - now I can't mount my share :( /sbin/mount.vboxsf: mounting failed with the error: No such device Also - I tried this error when ...