@z hopa
z hopa wrote:The user would have to be a root to do that, and you cannot expect every user of a GUI program to be a root.
Seriously? Really? That's a first! You've never seen/heard of users having their home directories in network shares? Shares that are mounted at boot time? Via the system account/scripts? Frankly, that's completely and utterly incorrect (to say the least, I wanna keep it rated PG-13). Please check the manual again. Or see below for a picture that's worth a thousand words. But, please do not go on spreading half-knowledge, sometimes it's worst than blatant lies.
z hopa wrote:You've tested under Windows, but we are in the Linux hosts forum.
And please explain to me like I'm a six-year old, why, oh why, would
THAT make a difference, on this side of the Kuiper belt. VirtualBox does not have its own filesystem/mountpoint manager, nor does it care particularly. It relies on the host OS to do it. But, since there are many doubting Thomases among us, please, take a look at the picture below.
@Abrugal
Abrugal wrote:Patience! It's coming. The icon on the error dialog is the same as VB icon. Are you sure it's nothing to do with VB?
Yes, 100%. Abso-freaking-lutely sure! That is coming from your OS! And the fact that
the share you're trying to save the OVA
is read-only, or you have some other
permissions issue. Get your shtuff together. If you want to blame someone, blame lack of knowledge/understanding. But that's hard to do, it's always easier to blame someone else, isn't it?
So, here you go. Proof. This is a screenshot of a VirtualBox installation in a Linux Mint
(@zhopa does that qualify as a Linux host?) exporting an OVA in a Windows Samba share
(@Abrugal I think that the percent indicator shows a successful save). The user is a 'Standard' user that has mapped
on-the-fly, not from a boot script, a Samba network share
(@zhopa I think this definitely qualifies as a user-mounted share, not an exported one, but I got bored of proving common knowledge).
I have to apologize for some Greek captions in the picture, but you get the point. I'm just afraid it's not
just the picture that is Greek to you:
- ExportingOVAtoSMB.png (140.12 KiB) Viewed 2784 times
And this is what it looks like after the export. This is a view from the Mint host, looking at the Samba share (being there actually):
Stokos@VB-Mint /run/user/1001/gvfs/smb-share:server=vb-win7,share=c/Users/Socratis/TestForReallySmartPeople $ pwd
/run/user/1001/gvfs/smb-share:server=vb-win7,share=c/Users/Socratis/TestForReallySmartPeople
Stokos@VB-Mint /run/user/1001/gvfs/smb-share:server=vb-win7,share=c/Users/Socratis/TestForReallySmartPeople $ ls -al
total 32195
drwx------ 1 Stokos Stokos 0 Οκτ 25 03:13 .
drwx------ 1 Stokos Stokos 8192 Οκτ 25 03:09 ..
-rwx------ 1 Stokos Stokos 32959488 Οκτ 25 03:13 ThereYouGo.ova
Stokos@VB-Mint /run/user/1001/gvfs/smb-share:server=vb-win7,share=c/Users/Socratis/TestForReallySmartPeople $
And, Abrugal, please don't give me the same poem again and again that you're going to switch to VMWare. You already have. I have only sympathy for their support team. I'm just a volunteer after all. I don't have to do this ad infinitum. And not with everyone; I get to pick who I reply to...
Have a goodnight gentlemen...
PS. To be honest I'm hanging in here by a thread (no pun intended), losing time persuading a user that they're wrong, when they've clearly stated that they're abandoning VirtualBox. I just don't want to leave misconceptions hanging unanswered. This thread has been filled with half-explanations and unfounded problems. Even from the original title! If it goes any further, there's only one future for this thread...