Shared Folders with 2008.11 guest

[ChrisL]

Fedora Core 9 host, VirtualBox 2.2.4, OpenSolaris 2008.11 guest.

I was hoping to use the new Open Solaris Shared Folder support to share home directories from the Linux host to the guest. One home directory in particular was pretty bloated (~312916 directories/files). I was unable to view the contents of this folder on the guest:

# mount -F vboxfs -o uid=500,gid=500,rw home /guest/home
# cd /guest/home/
# ls bloated
ls: reading directory bloated: No space left on device
# find bloated -print
bloated

Other shared folders with non-trivial directory structures (29125 directories/files) appear to be working ok.

In lieu of shared folders, does anyone a cookbook for doing NFS from the host to Solaris guest? I'm about 4 years removed from dealing with Solaris on a daily basis, and a lot has changed.

Thanks in advance,
Chris

[ChrisL]

To follow up on my original post, the problem does exist as well with OpenSolaris 2009.06 guests. This matches bug #4154, except for a Linux host rather than MacOs.

I did get NFS working between the Linux host and Solaris guest after double-checking the linux firewall settings and following a recommendation from an OpenSolaris mailing list to avoid NFS V4 on Linux.