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Hi

Here I summarize all the drawbacks I found to make my openSuse 12.3 in a virtual box access
the Windows folders. Actually I didn't know that

openSuse 12.3 has guest additions by default (!!!)

which I was trying unnecessarily install. Here I share the problems and solutions that ended in the first step...
after several tries running in circles looking for the wrong answers. Anyway it may help someone else.

Let's go:


To use shared folder in opensuse 12.3 (Windows host, openSuse guest), first check if the guest additions
are already installed, by default it should be automatically installed, see
http://www.binarytides.com/install-virt ... suse-12-2/

To verify this, use

dmesg |grep vboxsf

[enter] and you should see:

vboxsf: Successfully loaded version 4.2.6_OSE


As demonstrated in

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lGaaf9b3kDQ

(around 30-35min)


If it is ok skip all the 'Troubles' section to set up your virtual box

//------------Troubles-------------begin
Trouble 1
If not, or you want to reinstall the guest additions, you will have to install
the C compile.You can either follow

http://www.binarytides.com/install-virt ... suse-12-2/

or
http://www.susegeek.com/virtualization/ ... -guest-os/

as this last one shows by doing
:~> su -
password:

opensuse:~# yast2 –install gcc gcc-c++ make kernel-source

Trouble 2
If it fails giving the message:
yast2: invalid option -- 'n'

Then use

opensuse:~# yast2 –-install gcc gcc-c++ make kernel-source

should install

Trouble 3
If you get any message saying that

opensuse 12.3 yast is blocked by the packagekit

Then give the command

ps -A

that will give all the running process than pick the number of packagekit, for example

2690 ? 00:00:00 packagekit

and in the prompt:

kill 2690

Now you proceed in the guest additions installation as some of the given links say.

(These were the troubles and solutions I've found)
//------------Troubles-------------end



After the installation of the guest additions ready, you build the shared folder:

1-In Windows go to the virtual box manager;
2-In 'shared folder' option add user with a name:'MyName' and specify the folder you want to share.

3-In the openSuse create the folder '/home/SharedFolder'
(or any other desired location);

4-Still in openSuse
sudo mount -t vboxsf MyName /home/SharedFolder

in this folder you should finally from openSuse see the specified folder in Windows.


5-The previews item crates the folder only once, meaning every time you open the virtual box you should give this command again. To keep it permanently add to the file

/etc/fstab

the line

MyName /home/SharedFolder vboxsf defaults,uid=1000,gid=1000 0 0

In this case as root:
su -
password:

Edit and save the file fstab.

(http://linux.bigresource.com/OpenSUSE-A ... oIpSx.html)


OpenSuse 12.3 is finally running with appropriate shared folder in Windows Vista, after a couple of days of labor.

I hope it helps.

'That's all folks!'