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22 questions linked to/from How to mount a VirtualBox shared folder at startup?
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how to share a folder between windows 10 and an Ubuntu which is installed on virtual box? [duplicate]
I want to share a folder which is on one of my drives on windows 10 with the ubuntu i've installed on virtual box.
What should i do on both of the operating systems?
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mount: can't find /home/paatubo/Desktop/vmshare in /etc/fstab [duplicate]
I made a sharefolder on vmbox.
I typed
sudo mount -t vboxsf /home/paatubo/Desktop/vmshare/
But it showed the following message as response:
mount: can't find /home/paatubo/Desktop/vmshare in /...
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Setting up shared drive through virtualbox [duplicate]
I have Ubuntu 14.04 running as a virtual machine through Virtualbox and I'm trying to set up a directory to share with the Host (windows 8.1). Under settings I have specified a windows directory that ...
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How to add existing user to an existing group?
I want to add the Apache user (www-data) to the audio group. I've read the man page for useradd, but I'm not having any luck. I'm running xubuntu 11.10. Here's what I'm doing:
$ sudo useradd -G audio ...
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How do I install Guest Additions in a VirtualBox VM?
I've recently installed Ubuntu on Oracle's Virtualbox. Now I want to install the guest additions.
I started up my Ubuntu guest OS, clicked "Devices" and chose "Install Guest Additions". Nothing ...
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How to access a shared folder in VirtualBox?
I followed the steps for sharing folders between Windows 7 and Ubuntu in VirtualBox.
Despite that the folder appears with a X sign and gives me the following message when a try to open it:
The ...
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"Protocol error" mounting VirtualBox shared folders in an Ubuntu guest
I have Ubuntu 10 as the guest OS on a Windows 7 machine. I have been trying to setup shares through VirtualBox, but nothing is working. First, I create the share in VirtualBox and point it to a ...
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Can't see shared folders in VirtualBox Ubuntu VM?
I've been using VirtualBox for the first time to run Ubuntu and am having some problems with shared folders. I've done everything that I can think of after googling and looking around but still can't ...
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Change mount point of virtualbox shared folder
I have a shared folder set up between virtualbox and my windows 7 host machine. I have a test.txt file that I created in Windows and it shows up appropriately in my Ubuntu VM. Virtualbox mounts the ...
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Can't access VirtualBox shared folder
I've created a shared folder in VirtualBox and made it mount under Ubuntu; I see it in the /media/ dir, but when I'm trying to list it I'm getting a "No permission" error message. How can I fix that?
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How to access hard-drive from Ubuntu in VirtualBox [duplicate]
recently i installed windows7 on oracle VM virtualbox but I can't get files from my hard drive to the OS installed in VirtualBox.
Is there any way to access files of my hard in VirtualBox?
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Auto mounting shared folders with VirtualBox
I am using Ubuntu 14.04 on a VM using VirtualBox. As I often have to do development for work in both windows and linux, I have a shared development directory. The issue is that even with auto mount ...
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Copying files from Ubuntu guest to Windows host [duplicate]
I want to transfer files from my Ubuntu (installed on VirtualBox Version 5.1.26) to Windows 7 host. I'm able to copy files from my host to guest using Shared Clipboard but I want to copy the other way ...
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how do i set up a virtual box shared folder in an Ubuntu 18.04 VM on a windows 10 host? [duplicate]
i added a folder to the machine in VirtualBox, but from inside Ubuntu i can't get to the shared folder.
host: windows 10
guest: ubuntu 18.04
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Why isn't my Upstart script running on 14.04?
I have the following Upstart script saved as /etc/init/automount.conf:
description "SOME DESCRIPTION"
start on startup
task
exec mount -t vboxsf WebApps -o rw,dmode=777,gid=GROUP_ID,uid=USER_ID ...
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