Shared folders and Lion
Posted: 20. Oct 2011, 08:28
Hi folks,
I'm running VB 4.1.4 under Lion -- I don't know if this is an issue related to Lion or not. Also I'm new to VB so it could be my ignorance as well. My guest is Debian Linux.
I follow the manual's advice, and go to Devices->Shared Folders... to set up a shared folder, which is actually my home folder "mike" on the Mac. I select "automount" and "permanent", and give it the name "mikeOnMac". This seems to go OK -- no error comes up.
But when I switch to my guest system, where's the shared folder? The manual says I should (in a terminal) do
mike@debian:/dev$ sudo mount -t vboxsf mikeShared /mnt/mikeOnMac
But I get:
/sbin/mount.vboxsf: mounting failed with the error: Invalid argument
Where do I go from here? There's a complex error log dump at the Linux end so I'll post this query to the Debian guest forum as well, with the extra info.
TIA, Mike.
I'm running VB 4.1.4 under Lion -- I don't know if this is an issue related to Lion or not. Also I'm new to VB so it could be my ignorance as well. My guest is Debian Linux.
I follow the manual's advice, and go to Devices->Shared Folders... to set up a shared folder, which is actually my home folder "mike" on the Mac. I select "automount" and "permanent", and give it the name "mikeOnMac". This seems to go OK -- no error comes up.
But when I switch to my guest system, where's the shared folder? The manual says I should (in a terminal) do
mike@debian:/dev$ sudo mount -t vboxsf mikeShared /mnt/mikeOnMac
But I get:
/sbin/mount.vboxsf: mounting failed with the error: Invalid argument
Where do I go from here? There's a complex error log dump at the Linux end so I'll post this query to the Debian guest forum as well, with the extra info.
TIA, Mike.