shared folders are empty
Posted: 30. Nov 2009, 02:19
I tried asking on the OpenSolaris hosts forum, but have got no response, so I thought I'd try here.
I've got the following setup
Sun Ultra 27 running OpenSolaris 06/2009 as host operating system
Virtualbox 3.0.12 r54655
Solaris 10 update 8 as a guest operating system.
Virtualbox additions installed.
XP virtual machine.
I've shared a couple of directories from the host. When I look at the window where the Solaris 10 host runs, I can see the two shared folders listed. One is the /export/home/drkirkby ZFS file system (my home-directory) from the host machine, which has 75 GB of data in it. I called the share 'homedirectory'. When I mount the share in the Solaris 10 virtual machine, the file system mounts, but the directory appears empty. The OpenSolaris host shows there is a 1.4 TB of space free, and 75 GB used, which is the same as what the guest operating system shows.
Has anyone got any ideas? It seems odd that the guest knows the size of the folder, knows how much space is used, but can't see any of the files.
I've got the following setup
Sun Ultra 27 running OpenSolaris 06/2009 as host operating system
Virtualbox 3.0.12 r54655
Solaris 10 update 8 as a guest operating system.
Virtualbox additions installed.
XP virtual machine.
I've shared a couple of directories from the host. When I look at the window where the Solaris 10 host runs, I can see the two shared folders listed. One is the /export/home/drkirkby ZFS file system (my home-directory) from the host machine, which has 75 GB of data in it. I called the share 'homedirectory'. When I mount the share in the Solaris 10 virtual machine, the file system mounts, but the directory appears empty. The OpenSolaris host shows there is a 1.4 TB of space free, and 75 GB used, which is the same as what the guest operating system shows.
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bash-3.00$ su
Password:
# /usr/sbin/mount -F vboxfs homedirectory /mnt
# ls /mnt
# df -h
Filesystem size used avail capacity Mounted on
/dev/dsk/c0d0s0 58G 3.6G 53G 7% /
/devices 0K 0K 0K 0% /devices
ctfs 0K 0K 0K 0% /system/contract
proc 0K 0K 0K 0% /proc
mnttab 0K 0K 0K 0% /etc/mnttab
swap 2.2G 968K 2.2G 1% /etc/svc/volatile
objfs 0K 0K 0K 0% /system/object
sharefs 0K 0K 0K 0% /etc/dfs/sharetab
/usr/lib/libc/libc_hwcap1.so.1
58G 3.6G 53G 7% /lib/libc.so.1
fd 0K 0K 0K 0% /dev/fd
swap 2.2G 80K 2.2G 1% /tmp
swap 2.2G 24K 2.2G 1% /var/run
/dev/dsk/c0d0s7 137G 64M 136G 1% /export/home
/vol/dev/dsk/c1t0d0/vboxadditions_3.0.12_54655
31M 31M 0K 100% /cdrom/vboxadditions_3.0.12_54655
homedirectory 1.4T 75G 1.4T 6% /mnt