<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:verdana, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt"><div>Hi all,</div><div><br><span></span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13.3333px; font-family: verdana,helvetica,sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span>I have been using 6.0 for a couple of months and now I have</span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13.3333px; font-family: verdana,helvetica,sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span>upgraded to 6.5 and I think I have a problem.</span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13.3333px; font-family: verdana,helvetica,sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><br><span></span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13.3333px; font-family: verdana,helvetica,sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span>I followed the installation on a
VirtualBox to the T and everything <br></span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13.3333px; font-family: verdana,helvetica,sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span>worked fine. <br></span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13.3333px; font-family: verdana,helvetica,sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><br><span></span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13.3333px; font-family: verdana,helvetica,sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span>Now every time I launch the VBox (on a Ubuntu 11.04 host), everything</span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13.3333px; font-family: verdana,helvetica,sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span>works OK except for the desktop "expansion" and for the shared folder.</span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13.3333px; font-family:
verdana,helvetica,sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><br><span></span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13.3333px; font-family: verdana,helvetica,sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span>I have to run the following:</span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13.3333px; font-family: verdana,helvetica,sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><br><span></span></div><div><tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">user@osgeolive:~$</span> <span class="pre">cd</span> <span class="pre">/media/VBOXADDITIONS_4.2.10_84104/</span></tt></div>
<div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13.3333px; font-family: monospace; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">user@osgeolive:/media/VBOXADDITIONS_4.2.10_84104$</span> <span class="pre">sudo</span> <span class="pre">./VBoxLinuxAdditions.run</span></tt></div><tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">user@osgeolive:~$</span> <span class="pre">sudo</span> <span class="pre">mount</span> <span class="pre">-t</span> <span class="pre">vboxsf</span> <span class="pre">-o</span> <span class="pre">uid=user,rw</span> <span class="pre">GIS</span> <span class="pre">/home/user/GIS<br><br>and reboot every time I launch the VBox... <br>is this the way it is supposed to work? or <br>am I doing something wrong?<br>how do I fix it so it stays like that for future use?<br><br>Thanks a lot in advance for the help !!<br><br>Carlos<br></span></tt></div></body></html>