How do you mount a Virtualbox shared folder? Group or permissions issue?

[notorab]

Does anyone know the procedure for a non-root user to gain access to Virtualbox shared folders?

This was fairly straightforward in Debian, however I'm having challenges with FreeBSD. It looks like a group and permissions issue. In Debian, I simply created a group "vboxsf", added my unprivileged user to it, chgrp the mount folder and then mounted. I tried this in FreeBSD I used this procedure, however the group gets changed on the folder to "wheel" after mounting the shared folder.

Your guidance appreciated.

$ mkdir /mnt/srcr

$ ls -ld /mnt/srcr
drwxr-xr-x  2 root  vboxsf  512 Nov  6 00:03 /mnt/srcr

$ sudo mount -t vboxvfs Source /mnt/srcr

$ ls -ld /mnt/srcr
drwxr-xr-x  1 root  wheel  576 Oct 14 21:45 /mnt/srcr

$ whoami
np
$ pwd
/mnt/srcr
$ ls /mnt/src
drwx------  10 root  wheel  320 Oct 14 21:35 X/
$ ls /mnt/src/X
ls: X/: Permission denied

[socratis]

In Debian, I simply created a group "vboxsf"

I think that merely the installation of the Guest Additions (GAs) does that for you, you don't have to create the group yourself. Are you installing the official GAs? The following will tel...

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