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I've just upgraded my VM from Ubuntu server 12.04 to 14.04.

I used to mount my data folder through fstab as follows:

datafolder  /mnt/DataFolder  vboxsf  uid=106,gid=113, dir_mode=0770 0 0

I had nothing in my rc.local, nor anything in my /etc/modules (as per some solutions on this site).

When I upgraded to 14.04 this all stopped working. I could manually mount the share using:

mount -t vboxsf datafolder /mnt/DataFolder

However, on boot I would get an error.

I know this question has been asked a lot, but none of the solutions seem to work for me.

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  • After boot but before the drive is mounted, does mount datafolder work?
    – Dan
    Jul 31, 2014 at 12:24
  • Yes, it does. It properly mounts the drive. Jul 31, 2014 at 12:25

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I had this issue after upgrading from Kubuntu (guest) 12.04 to 14.04. And the solution provided here solves the problem partially. Virtualbox shared folder mount from fstab fails; works once bootup is complete

The solution forces the vboxsf module to be loaded early, before mounting file systems.

It only partially works for me: the error message is still displayed, but strangely, choosing the 'mount manually' (instead of skip mounting) option, and then doing nothing but exiting (Ctrl-D) to continue booting mounts the shared folder, indicating that it works (automatically) during the second try!

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