Lubuntu Shared Folder issue in VirtualBox 4.2.18

[Dale Visser]

Yes, I had been using these shared folders for a couple of years now, and
they were set up automount and writable. In diagnosing things, I also tried
manually mounting a transient shared folder. I had the same result, i.e.,
the host shared folder contents would not appear. Only moving my VirtualBox
to version 4.3.0 solved things.


On Fri, Oct 18, 2013 at 4:10 PM, Andre Rodovalho
<andre.rodovalho at gmail.com>wrote:

> You were using automount option?
>
>
> 2013/10/18 Dale Visser <dale.visser at gmail.com>
>
>> This may be of general interest to users of other Ubuntu 3.10 variants as
>> well. The following is copied from my blog post at http://bit.ly/177408M:
>>
>> Yesterday, I upgraded my Ubuntu Gnome 13.04 (64-bit) virtual machine to
>> Lubuntu 13.10. I rely on the VirtualBox Shared Folders feature to keep my
>> git repositories in sync with bare copies on network drives at my
>> workplace. (My Host OS is Windows 7, and my workplace IT infrastructure is
>> Windows-based.)
>>
>> To my horror, today I discovered I could not access my shared folders
>> from my new Guest OS. I even created a “clean” new Lubuntu 13.10 guest
>> machine, which exhibited the same issue. (Yes, I carefully performed the
>> dance of apt-get update, upgrade, install dkms, install guest additions,
>> and rebooting after each install.) So I knew it wasn’t an issue with the
>> upgrade process.
>>
>> Then, I remembered that the other day, I saw an Oracle announcement that
>> VirtualBox 4.3.0 had been released. I’m running version 4.2.18. Sure
>> enough, upgrading to the latest VirtualBox, and installing its Guest
>> Additions solved the issue. I’m assuming there have been changes in the
>> Linux Kernel (Ubuntu 13.10 is running the 3.11 kernel) that necessitated
>> updates to Guest Additions.
>>
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