Shared folder works in Vbox 2.02 but not in 2.04

wabe · Post by **wabe** » 4. Nov 2008, 16:18

Have spent a few hours trying to get my guest OS (Opensuse 11) to communicate with the outside world using Vbox 2.04 on a x64 Windows host.
Decided to try out on a different machine x32 Windows XP running Vbox 2.02.

Have learned that shared folders work on the x32 Vbox 2.02 setup but not on the x64 Vbox 2.04 setup.

Post by **Sasquatch** » 4. Nov 2008, 22:57

Do you get any error messages? Anything in the log files (/var/log)? Please give more information.

wabe · Post by **wabe** » 5. Nov 2008, 01:22

I issue the mount -t vboxsf command that works perfectly on the 2.02 x32 system.
The return message is ' /sbin/mount.vboxsf: mounting failed with the error: No such file or directory'

Post by **Sasquatch** » 5. Nov 2008, 20:44

Did you install the Guest Additions? And if you did, did you update the system, especially the kernel? You need to install the GA after each kernel upgrade again.

wabe · Post by **wabe** » 5. Nov 2008, 23:24

Sasquatch wrote:Did you install the Guest Additions?

I certainly did.

Installed the kernel-sources and the additional required modules. There has not been any kernel upgrades since I did this. Also just to make sure I reran the GA-script again yesterday. Same result.
Also as stated: Works perfectly on Vbox 2.02 on a Win XP x32 host with Opensuse 11.0 x32.

Post by **ppgrainbow** » 6. Nov 2008, 07:43

The Guest Additions work on Vista Ultimate SP1 64-bit with Windows XP SP3 (32-bit) as the guest OS. I can share files with one of my six storage devices. Four of which are USB-based.

So, I have no problem with it at all.

wabe · Post by **wabe** » 6. Nov 2008, 22:57

ppgrainbow wrote:The Guest Additions work on Vista Ultimate SP1 64-bit with Windows XP SP3 (32-bit) as the guest OS. I can share files with one of my six storage devices. Four of which are USB-based.

So, I have no problem with it at all.

That's good for you! Still no luck with server 2008 x64 and x64 Linux guest

Post by **ppgrainbow** » 6. Nov 2008, 23:50

wabe wrote:
ppgrainbow wrote:The Guest Additions work on Vista Ultimate SP1 64-bit with Windows XP SP3 (32-bit) as the guest OS. I can share files with one of my six storage devices. Four of which are USB-based.

So, I have no problem with it at all.
That's good for you! Still no luck with server 2008 x64 and x64 Linux guest

I'm currently downloading a 4.33 GB OpenSuse 64-bit DVD and I'm gonna try it out shortly on this PC since my host PC is 64-bit to see if it works. I cannot download the OpenSuse DVD of that size due to the 4 GB download limitations under Internet Explorer.

In Windows 98/Me, the download limit for IE is 2 GB.

Currently, the size downloaded so far is 2.59 GB and I'm hoping that it crosses the 4 GB single-session download barrier in Firefox 3, which means that the download should be done in about 3 to 4 hours.