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I am running Oracle VirtualBox 5.1 on Windows 7 Professional. I have an Ubuntu 16 virtual server as a guest. In Oracle VirtualBox I went to Devices -> Shared Folders -> Shared Folders Settings. I added a share. The folder name was delu. The path was to c:\del\ on my Windows machine. In Linux, I ran this as root:

mount -t ext3 delu ~/fun

I get "mount: special device delu does not exist." What should I do?

I tried rebooting the Linux guest, but that didn't help. I tried recreating the share as read-only with auto-mount and "make permanent" checked. The result is the same.

Start with the manual http://www.virtualbox.org/manual/ch04.h ... redfolders

I have tried a variety of things including looking at the documentation. I am now trying a "better" command. When I run this command it just hangs. There is no error message. I do not get to run another command. There is no prompt. If I press enter, the screen moves downward.

Assuming that you used sudo to elevate the user to be able to do this you must also have the guest additions installed. Since servers usually don't have a desktop and use cli you would need to install them with the --nox11 tag at the end of the run command. You might want to post the guests log file ( as an attachment ) if you need to continue this conversation.