You can set up NFS or Samba to share a folder between a Linux host and a FreeBSD guest. The method outlined in this blog post works for Linux and Windows guest OSes but not FreeBSD. Part 3 shows how the guest OS can access USB drives mounted on the host. Part 2 outlines the post installation tasks, including installing the universal VirtualBox extension pack. Part 1 of the series shows how to install VirtualBox on a Debian host, and how to create a FreeBSD virtual machine.
The focus is on how to share folders between the host and the guest OSes. I even installed the guest additions from CD which promptly messed up everything, so I reinstalled 4.0, but am facing the same shared folder problem.This post is the 4th installment of the VirtualBox series. But my shared folders don't turn up, there's no entry in the file manager, nor in /media, and I have no idea what went wrong. Everything seems to be just as it is in 3.8, so I added myself to the vboxsf group again. So in 3.8 there was no need to install the guest additions from the CD following OS installation, the shared folders were listed in the file manager, and after adding myself to the vboxsf group and rebooting, I was able to access them Just as in Linux Lite 3.8, the guest-dkms, utils and X11 are already there, the screen resolution gives me full screen, everything, just as in 3.8, seems ready out of the box. This concerns Linux Lite 4 as a Guest in VirtualBox. I'm re-posting this since initially I posted this query in the Tutorial section by accident, which was dumb because it's not where it belongs I'm not an expert and can only assume there must be a more elegant solution, though what it might be I haven't a clue -)
This gives ownership of the shared folder to root though, which can be overcome by doing sudo mount -t vboxsf -o uid=1000,gid=1000.īut this is all rather cumbersome, specially with half a dozen or more shared folders. An entry in /etc/fstab can make this mount permanent. I have since been able to at least mount the shared folders in my Linux Lite 4 guest, by doing a mkdir in ~/home to which the shared folder can refer, then mount the shared folder doing sudo mount -t. I don't intend to run another VM as a guest on my Linux Lite 4 Guest, if you see what I mean it's the Linux Lite 4 Guest which plays funny with the shared folders. I am running a number of VM machines (on top of Mint LMDE2 as host), and in all of them, including by the way a fine Linux Lite 3.8, everything re shared folders is as it should be. Thanks for your reply, though unfortunately it doesn't seem to solve this strange problem.
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