Showing posts with label VirtualBox. Show all posts
Showing posts with label VirtualBox. Show all posts

June 21, 2017

Mount virtualbox shared folder at startup

Reference: How to mount a VirtualBox shared folder at startup?

  • Add shared folder in virtualbox, do not select Auto-mount
  • Force the vboxsf module to be loaded before fstab
    • add vboxsf in /etc/modules
  • Add the following line in /etc/fstab (change the uid, gid as needed)
shared_folder   /path/to/mountpoint   vboxsf   auto,rw,uid=0,gid=0  0   0

June 04, 2015

Fail to mount Guest Additions in VirtualBox

Just met this problem today and found solution here

sudo apt-get install virtualbox-guest-dkms virtualbox-guest-utils virtualbox-guest-x11