To mount a shared folder during boot, add the following entry to /etc/fstab:
sharename mountpoint vboxsf defaults 0 0
Well it does works; but some times during boot up, or especially after kernel update, this feature fails with loading up of the maintenance mode. The only solution is to disable it and reboot.
I usually keep on running into this problem. Please inform, if theres a work around!
As for the rest of your issue, the solution is to remove it from the "/etc/fstab" entry and add it to the "rc.local". This has happened due to the delayed start of the VirtualBox related services due to Ubuntu changes.
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1. Please be kind to clarify rc.local. I understand that the links I shared give many options to resolve it ...!
2. Well the problem came to me in Debian, Opensuse (in randomly) and definitely Ubuntu never mounted it.
3. As I recall: I think that Devuan, Centos and Fedora, perhaps didnt give this problem.
makh wrote:I understand that the links I shared give many options to resolve it
I'm not a Linux guru, so let's see if someone else with more experience can verify it, but the idea is that you create/edit the file "/etc/rc.local" for your OS. For example, in my Ubuntu 16.04, the default "/etc/rc.local" looks like this:
#!/bin/sh -e
#
# rc.local
#
# This script is executed at the end of each multiuser runlevel.
# Make sure that the script will "exit 0" on success or any other
# value on error.
#
# In order to enable or disable this script just change the execution
# bits.
#
# By default this script does nothing.
exit 0
If I want to mount "sharename" into "mountpoint", I need to modify that file to look something like this:
#!/bin/sh -e
#
# rc.local
#
# This script is executed at the end of each multiuser runlevel.
# Make sure that the script will "exit 0" on success or any other
# value on error.
#
# In order to enable or disable this script just change the execution
# bits.
#
# By default this script does nothing.mount -t vboxsf sharename mountpoint
exit 0
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