[Solved] Mint 19 as Guest - Shared folders / clipboard not working

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micha205
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[Solved] Mint 19 as Guest - Shared folders / clipboard not working

Post by micha205 »

I'm using VB 5.2.26 as Host

And Guest: Mint 19 Cinnamon Kernel 4.15.0.-48

Already installed and Reinstalled) VBox_GAs_5.2.26

Shared folders Vlipboard is not working and using a USB Stick, too.
What's going wrong?
Last edited by socratis on 30. Apr 2019, 08:33, edited 1 time in total.
Reason: Marked as [Solved].
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Re: Mint 19 as Guest - Shared folders / clipboard not working

Post by socratis »

We need to see a complete VBox.log, from a complete VM run, where the problem occurs:
  • Start the VM from cold-boot (not from a paused or saved state) / Observe problem / Shutdown the VM (force close it if you have to).
  • With the VM completely shut down (not paused or saved), right-click on the VM in the VirtualBox Manager and select "Show Log".
  • Save only the first "VBox.log", ZIP it and attach it to your response. See the "Upload attachment" tab below the reply form.
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micha205
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Re: Mint 19 as Guest - Shared folders / clipboard not working

Post by micha205 »

Here the log informations you need.
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Re: Mint 19 as Guest - Shared folders / clipboard not working

Post by mpack »

According to the log, shared folders is working.
00:00:20.797945 VMMDev: Guest Log: 00:00:00.026516 automount vbsvcAutoMountWorker: Shared folder 'Win10SHARE' was mounted to '/media/sf_Win10SHARE'
I don't like the fact that the share name mixes case. I've seen that be the cause of mysterious failures in the past: the Windows host doesn't much care about case, but AFAIK Linux does.
micha205
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Re: Mint 19 as Guest - Shared folders / clipboard not working

Post by micha205 »

I've changed the foldername to lowercase and restart the vm. After this I Add the Group 'vboxdf' to the current user. After this i can open the mappings in '/media'.

Thank you very much for help!
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Re: Mint 19 as Guest - Shared folders / clipboard not working

Post by socratis »

Glad you got it going. Marking as [Solved].

Moving to "Linux Guests" from "Windows Hosts", that's where your problem was, with the guest...
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