Shared folders on kernel 3.11

[yug]

I am running fedora 20 in VB 4.2.18 on fedora 19 host.

I have 4.2.18 guest additions installed and vboxsf module is loaded however mounted shares are not accessible.

I have tried changing write permissions on the folder, changing selinux policy to permissive on the guest, mounting with 'UID=,GID=' options, adding my user to all vbox groups, but any attempt to access the mounted share just hangs.

Probably I'm missing something fundamental since I haven't found any related problems in my searches. I usually run VB on Windows and shared folders have always just worked but I must be doing something wrong on Linux.

[ManfredB]

I have the same problem.

I think it is kernel-3.11, because I have no problems with kernel-3.10.

What can we do? I don´t know, because nobody answers - either kernel-makers or virtualbox-creators.

The only answer I became, was: development-distros can make such problems....

ManfredB

[pictonic]

This problem has hit me too, but I don't think it is due to kernel 3.11.
On my iMac I regularly run Arch in one VM and recently installed kubuntu 13.10 beta to try it out.
Arch has upgraded to kernel 3.11 and retains full use of its shared folder.
kubuntu came with 3.11 and has a problem with its shared folder (set as the same mount point as used by Arch, but not used simultaneously).
The symptom is that no folders or files are listed from the top level mount point (reports 0 files) but you can supply the full path of a known file to 'ls' and get that file's information listed.
In my case I thought it was the kubuntu beta causing trouble; I noticed that the auto-mount listed an option of GID=1001, a non-existent group.
I tried a manual mount using the proper UID and GID, but the result was no different.
This might be something incompatible between current linux guest additions and kubuntu beta. I know Arch covers guest additions automatically, using their own packages; they've thought of most things so far...

[pictonic]

Correction - after update today Arch suffers the same problem of being unable to enumerate folders and files. The updates were to systemd (v207-3) and procps-ng (v3.3.8-3). This quite serious since I normally use shared folders to work in the vm.

[ManfredB]

VirtualBox-3-Beta3 Additions for kernel 3.11 - this is the answer: now I can use my shared Folders.

ManfredB