[Live-demo] Problem with mounting shared folder in OsgeoLive 8.5

[Johan Van de Wauw]

I'd recommend installing the kernel modules from the repositories:
sudo apt-get install virtualbox-ose-addtitions-modules

Reboot and try again.

On Tue, Apr 21, 2015 at 4:53 PM, Elena Mezzini <elena.mezzini at gmail.com> wrote:
> Dear all,
>
> I've just installed new versions of both Virtual Box (version
> 4.3.26_98988) and OsgeoLive 8.5 on Windows 7.
> I did everything explained in the OSGeo-Live Quickstart for Running in
> a Virtual Machine [0]
> I called my shared folder LAVORI that is located in c:/LAVORI, I
> didn't know if putting automatic mounting or not (I tried both.. but
> with the same final result)
> Then in Devices, Install Guest Additions, installing the Additions of Vbox
> then I did:
>
> sudo apt-get update
> sudo apt-get install build-essential linux-headers-generic
> cd /media/user/VBOXADDITIONS_4.3.26_98988/
> sudo ./VBoxLinuxAdditions.run
>
> then reboot the VM and:
> mkdir LAVORI
> sudo mount -t vboxsf -o uid=user, rw LAVORI /home/user/LAVORI
>
> BUT it's not working:
> /sbin/mount.vboxsf: mounting failed with the error: No such device.
>
> Maybe is something stupid, but I can't manage solve it!
>
> i will be glad if someone will help me, because without mounting this
> folder I can't work...
>
> Thank you in advance!
>
> Elena Mezzini
>
> [0] http://live.osgeo.org/en/quickstart/virtualization_quickstart.html
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