Shared folders requires restart?

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SMXSteve
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Shared folders requires restart?

Post by SMXSteve »

Is there a way to create and use a shared folder without restarting the guest VM?
mpack
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Re: Shared folders requires restart?

Post by mpack »

That depends on the guest OS. Which one requires a restart? I don't recall that, e.g., any Windows guest does.
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Re: Shared folders requires restart?

Post by Perryg »

I believe that is the auto-mount one that requires a restart of the guest to actually work. Oh and the user name being in the vboxsf group on Linux.
poleguy
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Re: Shared folders requires restart?

Post by poleguy »

I couldn't find a decent answer to this on the web. This post shows up as the second hit on google for "virtualbox mount shared folder without reboot".

So I thought I'd add this little impossible to find nugget:
systemctl restart vboxadd-service.service
And magically the newly added virtualbox shared folders appear without a reboot. (Test on Centos 7)
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Re: Shared folders requires restart?

Post by socratis »

Thanks @poleguy, good to know!
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