How to mount virtualbox shared folder on Ubuntu server 10.04 + GUI/sbin/mount.vboxsf mouning failed with error: no such device

virtualization virtualbox ubuntu-10.04
black sensei picture black sensei · Aug 16, 2010 · Viewed 51.9k times · Source

i'm new to this forum but i've been a occasional vbox user. I had windows 7 host and ubuntu 9.10 guest which works fine with vboxadditions installed, share folder and everything perfect. Now for some simulations i needed to have the ubuntu server 10.04 intall with x-window. what i did and so far so good.

now the problem i'm having now is that for the server i seem not to be able to mount a share folder.following the same process :

-install dkms
-update
-upgrade
-mount the vboxadditions iso in the host virtual drive and have it mounted in the guest as well
-install vboxadditions (sudo sh ./VBoxLinuxAdditions-x86.run)
-restart the guest os
- created ubuntu_share folder under /media/ubuntu_share

any time i'm trying to mount the folder ubuntu_share on my drive D (D:/Ubuntu_Share) with this command :

 mount -t vboxsf ubuntu_share /media/ubuntu_share

i always get :

/sbin/mount.vboxsf mouning failed with error: no such device


locate mount.vboxsf output this:
/opt/VBoxGuestAdditions-3.2.6/lib/VBoxGuestAdditions/mount.vboxsf
/sbin/mount.vboxsf

is there any problem with ubuntu server 10.04? or i'm just missing the mark somewhere? thanks for reading this and helping me out.

Answer

Robert Bruce picture Robert Bruce · Feb 13, 2014

On Ubuntu, I still couldn't get it to mount even after installing the guest additions. These two commands fixed it for me:

    apt-get install dkms
    /etc/init.d/vboxadd setup

Good luck.

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