Lubuntu Shared Folder issue in VirtualBox 4.2.18

[Phill Whiteside]

Is there a 4.3.0 available in anything that can be uploaded and installed
for 13.10?

Regards,

Phill.


On 18 October 2013 21:20, Dale Visser <dale.visser at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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