Hot-Swap Shared Folder?
Posted: 19. Sep 2010, 21:05
Window 7 64bit host, Ubuntu Server 10.04 32bit guest.
How can I "hot-swap" a shared folder?
Best would of course be if changing where the folder points to in the VirtualBox GUI would then immediately take effect in the guest, but that clearly does not work.
So I tried changing where the shared folder points to, then from the guest umount folder && mount folder, but that also had no effect; it still points to the old host folder, despite the GUI clearly showing the new location.
It seems the only way to actually change is to first umount, then change where it points to, then remount...but that is unacceptable for my use case as I need the guest to be fully automated (it occasionally performs an umount && mount cycle).
How can I "hot-swap" a shared folder?
Best would of course be if changing where the folder points to in the VirtualBox GUI would then immediately take effect in the guest, but that clearly does not work.
So I tried changing where the shared folder points to, then from the guest umount folder && mount folder, but that also had no effect; it still points to the old host folder, despite the GUI clearly showing the new location.
It seems the only way to actually change is to first umount, then change where it points to, then remount...but that is unacceptable for my use case as I need the guest to be fully automated (it occasionally performs an umount && mount cycle).