Shared folders usage locks up

[bryceman]

I've tried using VirtualBox shared folders from my x86 Lucid Host to my x86 Intrepid guest, and I'm having some kind of I/O problem. I'm got the mounting and all of that working just fine, I can browse the mounted directory and perform various read and write operations on either host or guest and everything seems to work ok. But what I'm sharing is a development sandbox, and when I actually get to doing a more complex operation on the guest, like a "make clean," which traverses a bunch of directories, deleting a bunch of different files and directories for a fresh build, it locks up. I tried some of the "rm -rf dir" commands manually, and they hand forever as well. Any ideas?

[Perryg]

Shared folders are really convenient but for something like this I always fall back to samba shares. I don't have problems this way and use the shared folders to simply move files between the host and guest. Plus compiling between guests is something that I don't usually do for the same reason. Usually a lot slower then native and usually a problem will happen.