Lubuntu Shared Folder issue in VirtualBox 4.2.18

[Dale Visser]

Specifically, I use Windows as my host and Linux as my guest, since I have
limited control over the configuration of my work machine. I assume you are
wondering how to install VirtualBox 4.3.0 on Ubuntu/Lubuntu 13.10 to use
that as the host. As far as I can tell, the version of VirtualBox currently
in the "saucy salamander" packages is 4.2.16:
http://packages.ubuntu.com/saucy/virtualbox It is possible to download a
.deb package of v4.3.0 directly from Oracle, though:
https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Linux_Downloads


On Fri, Oct 18, 2013 at 4:43 PM, Phill Whiteside <phillw at vpolink.com> wrote:

> 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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