Shared Folders Won't Work Host Mint, Guest Ubuntu 16.04

[micksuley]

Host is Linux Mint 17.3, running VB 4.3.28 r100309. I just created a new VB and installed Ubuntu 16.04.

I have installed Guest Additions and setup Shared Folders, in the setup page I can see
Machine Folders
Share /home/mick/..../Share Auto-mount = Yes Access = Full

but the shared folder does not show up anywhere. What have I missed?

Thanks
Mick

[Perryg]

I am not certain that 16.04 will work properly with the old version of VirtualBox you are using. Post the guests log file ( as an attachment )

[micksuley]

I didn't realise there was one. There are only 3 lines -

Starting the VirtualBox Guest Additions ...fail!
(modprobe vboxsf failed)
Starting VirtualBox Guest Addition service ...done.

So it looks like vboxsf is the problem, any idea how to fix that?

[Perryg]

Update to version 5.0.14 to start with. 16.04 is still pre-release but it does work for the most part if you have the latest VBox.
Plus I still don't know the installed version of VirtualBox. Was it the repo version or the official version from virtualbox.org?

[micksuley]

I installed VB from the Mint repositories, just checked and there was a newer one so I have installed that, now on 5.0.2 r102096
I installed the updated Guest additions but hte log ends in an error

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Synchronizing state of vboxadd.service with SysV init with /lib/systemd/systemd-sysv-install...
Executing /lib/systemd/systemd-sysv-install enable vboxadd
Synchronizing state of vboxadd-service.service with SysV init with /lib/systemd/systemd-sysv-install...
Executing /lib/systemd/systemd-sysv-install enable vboxadd-service
Synchronizing state of vboxadd-x11.service with SysV init with /lib/systemd/systemd-sysv-install...
Executing /lib/systemd/systemd-sysv-install enable vboxadd-x11
update-rc.d: error: vboxadd-x11 Default-Start contains no runlevels, aborting.

[Perryg]

Nothing else I can do for you unless you want to remove the repo version and install the official version ( 5.0.14 ) from virtualbox.org. As I said the older versions will probably not work properly on a pre-release OS.

[micksuley]

OK I'll give that a go. Thanks for your help.