Unable to mount Shared File - CentOS7 Guest

[DKohanski]

Hi, it is possible that I am missing something obvious here, but I am struggling to mount a shared folder in VBox while running CentOS 7 Guest.

[root@dashboard1 dev]# mount -t vboxsf dashboardProj ~/share/
mount: unknown filesystem type 'vboxsf'

I see that it does not recognize the type vboxsf, so I installed Guest Additions through the following commands:

yum install kernel-devel
yum install gcc*
yum install epel-release

I'm very new to both CentOS and VBox, so be gentle and I appreciate all help here.

[Perryg]

Post the guests log file ( as an attachment ). Right click on the guest in the Main Manager then click show log. Save and post as an attachment. Compress if it is too large to post.

[DKohanski]

Log Attached.

[Perryg]

The file is truncated or not finished. Either way it does not show that you have installed the guest additions. Make sure you do or shared folders will not work.

[DKohanski]

What is the best way to go about doing that?

[DKohanski]

Did it install correctly here?

[Perryg]

I can't tell as this log is also truncated and not showing the complete boot process.

But here is a link on how to install the guest additions This should help Howto: Install Linux Guest Additions

[DKohanski]

Thank you so much! It does not explain the prerequisite installations for RedHat distros however, like CentOS. Any idea if one of the others would work?

[Perryg]

Redhat Centos and Fedora are all the same in that regards.
Use the Fedora example.

[DKohanski]

Got it all working. Thanks for your help!