Ingo Strüwing
2014-04-01 16:26:22 UTC
Hi,
maybe, I did something wrong. But if someone else gets the problem, here
is a solution.
Host Ubuntu 64-bit
Guest Ubuntu 64-bit
Shared folders used to work between these two up to 4.3.8.
After the upgrade to 4.3.10, they were no longer mountable on the guest.
Note that I upgraded the Guest Additions with the first, revoked 4.3.10
package. When I noticed the missing mounts (after the new 4.3.10 had
been installed on the host), I re-installed Guest Additions in the guest
again, but it didn't fix it.
The problem was this:
/sbin/mount.vboxsf -> /usr/lib/VBoxGuestAdditions/mount.vboxsf
mount.vboxsf is a symbolic link into the directory
/usr/lib/VBoxGuestAdditions, but that directory didn't exist in my guest
any more. In a former release, that directory must have been present.
But now the Guest Additions are installed in
/opt/VBoxGuestAdditions-4.3.10
Creating a symbolic link made the shared folders mountable again:
ln -s /opt/VBoxGuestAdditions-4.3.10/lib/VBoxGuestAdditions
/usr/lib/VBoxGuestAdditions
But now I will likely have to re-create the symbolic link after every
install of a new release of Guest Additions as they will go into a
different directory. Would it be possible that some future install
routine sets the link automatically, or fixes the problem differently?
Regards
Ingo
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maybe, I did something wrong. But if someone else gets the problem, here
is a solution.
Host Ubuntu 64-bit
Guest Ubuntu 64-bit
Shared folders used to work between these two up to 4.3.8.
After the upgrade to 4.3.10, they were no longer mountable on the guest.
Note that I upgraded the Guest Additions with the first, revoked 4.3.10
package. When I noticed the missing mounts (after the new 4.3.10 had
been installed on the host), I re-installed Guest Additions in the guest
again, but it didn't fix it.
The problem was this:
/sbin/mount.vboxsf -> /usr/lib/VBoxGuestAdditions/mount.vboxsf
mount.vboxsf is a symbolic link into the directory
/usr/lib/VBoxGuestAdditions, but that directory didn't exist in my guest
any more. In a former release, that directory must have been present.
But now the Guest Additions are installed in
/opt/VBoxGuestAdditions-4.3.10
Creating a symbolic link made the shared folders mountable again:
ln -s /opt/VBoxGuestAdditions-4.3.10/lib/VBoxGuestAdditions
/usr/lib/VBoxGuestAdditions
But now I will likely have to re-create the symbolic link after every
install of a new release of Guest Additions as they will go into a
different directory. Would it be possible that some future install
routine sets the link automatically, or fixes the problem differently?
Regards
Ingo
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