Lost in Translation

[Brachamul]

I have a host Win7 64-bit running a guest Ubuntu 64-bit with a Bitnami Djangostack.

I'm trying to do something fairly simple : access a folder from my host machine on my guest machine.

I've been at this for days. To no avail. Please help

First, I added the folder to "Shared Folders" in my virtual machine's configuration. I also set it to automatically mount.

I then learnt that I needed to install Guest Additions.

I tried that with the normal "Install Guest Additions" in the virtual machine's menu, but that does not work. I get the error message :

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Could not mount the media/drive 'P:\Program Files\VirtualBox\VBoxGuestAdditions.iso' (VERR_PDM-MEDIA-LOCKED).

So i did :

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sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install virtualbox-guest-additions

It went badly. The installation had a [fail] tag saying :

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No suitable module for running kernel guest additions

This message and the [fail] tag now show up whenever I boot my machine. I don't know what that means or if it's remotely important.

Reading a fix, i typed :

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sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install linux-headers-generic

Still got the error message at boot. I checked to install virtualbox guest additions, but the console actually told me it was already installed and at the newest version.

When trying to access Shared Folders via the menu, I get a dialog box saying that Guest Additions are not installed. I rebooted the machine because I thought the change might not have taken effect, but I still get the same dialog box.

Since Guest Additions are not considered installed, the shared folder is not automatically mounted and cannot be found in /media.

I considered mounting it myself, but the tutorial says :

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mount -t vboxsf [-o OPTIONS] sharename mountpoint

Which sounds like medieval belarusian to me.

Any suggestions ?