Unmount shared folder in virtual box

How to unmount shared folder in virtual box. With Arch linux as guest

You can right click on the shared folder icon at the bottom right, the dialog box has an option to remove the shared folder.

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  • [solved] virtual box share folder unable to mount

    I am having vista and using virtual box installed arch linux as the guest.
    I have installed the base system from archlinus iso
    I created a shared folder called prem
    When I tried to mount share folder through I get the following
    mount -t vboxsf prem /mnt/vbox
    mount: unknown filesystem type 'vboxsf'
    I found that I have to install guest additions
    I clicked on the devices - install guest additions
    I didnt found any file  at /media/cdrom/VBoxLinuxAdditions-x86.run
    How to install VBoxLinuxAdditions-x86.run where is the file located.
    Or in arch linus should I install something to make share folder work
    can any one help
    Last edited by sant527 (2009-08-09 15:51:23)

    howto use shared folders in Linux guests - http://forums.virtualbox.org/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=15868
    After installing the Guest Additions, you can use the Shared Folders Functionality. To access them, you have to define at least one in the VM settings. Open the VM Settings and go to Shared Folders. You can define them there. Click on the Add button and browse for a folder you want to share. Make sure that the name of the share doesn't contain any illegal characters like white spaces. Keep the name as simple as possible. In this howto, I will use the name share.
    Now that you have defined a SF, it's time to mount it. Boot the Guest and open a terminal. Create a folder where you will mount it on. E.g. in your home folder. I will use ~/host for the mount point.
    Now mount it with the following command:
    Code: Select all   Expand viewCollapse view
        sudo mount -t vboxsf share ~/host
    Note that with this, the default mount options are used and all files are owned by root. This can be changed by adding some mount options. Options are passed on with the -o parameter. You can use multiple options with one parameter, seperate the values with a comma. See the man page of mount for more info on which options you can use. The User Manual also notes the options compatible with the Shared Folders. To mount the SF so that you are the owner of the files, use this command:
    Code: Select all   Expand viewCollapse view
        sudo mount -t vboxsf -o uid=1000,gid=1000 share ~/host
    If you want to have it mount automatically upon each boot, put the mount command in /etc/rc.local (Debian based distro's), or whatever script is run at the end of the boot process. The Shared Folders service should mount them automatically, but that doesn't always happen.
    Using /etc/fstab has little effect, because that file is processed before the SF module is loaded and will fail to mount the share. Sometimes, the share does get mounted because the GA check for it when they are loaded upon boot, but it's very flaky, meaning it doesn't work most of the time. You're better of with the first option.

  • [HELP!] Can't access shared folder from Azure Web Role on same Azure Virtual Network

    I have an Azure Virtual Network that has a virtual machine acting like an app server running some legacy applications that is writing some files to a folder that is shared.
    This shared folder is accessible from other virtual machines within that virtual network without issue.
    The problem I am having is that I have an Azure Web Role that is also attached to the above
    Azure Virtual Network that is unable to access the shared folder. I know the web role can see the app server as it is able to ping the IP of the machine.
    There is some code that needs access to the shared folder to process some of the files that is stored there, but the code won't run because it can not access these files. I used Remote Desktop to see if I could ping the machine, and I can, but I cannot navigate
    to the path in file explorer due to access being denied.
    Can anyone offer any advice or tips to point me in the right direction to gain access to this shared folder from my Azure Web Role?

    Hi Robert,
    Thanks for your posting!
    Form your descirpiton, I suggest you can refer to Tom Zhang's solution via this
    link:
    1. Enable Remote Desktop. (You have done this step)
        2. RDP to one instance of your service. Open up IIS Manager and set the application pool identity to use the account that we used for RDP.
        3. On on-premise local machine, right click "My Computer' and select "Manage". Add a new account with the same account name and password as we specified for Remote Desktop.
        4. Give the new account necessary permissions to write file to the shared folder. (I think you have done this step too)
        5. Try running the code again and see if it works.
        6. If it still says "access to path <folder path located on local machine> is denied". Please check the permission of the shared folder again.
        7. If it works, then the next step is to configure the application pool identity using Startup Task instead of using Remote Desktop (See the suggestion inhttp://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/windowsazuresecurity/thread/247ba75e-87d9-497c-9ec6-1fd4e2c7ff90).
    But I still recommend you enable Remote Desktop for your web role to check if the Startup Task has successfully configured the application pool identity or not.
    Regards,
    Will
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  • Error VMware Tools Installation (Shared Folder) - Ubuntu 15.04 [SOLVED!]

    Workstation 11.1
    Ubuntu 15.04 Guest OS
    Kernel 3.19.0-15-generic
    VMwareTools-9.9.2-2496486
    When I try to install vmwaretools in my Ubuntu 15.04, I receive the following compilation errors (shared folder feature don't work):
    Initializing...
    Making sure services for VMware Tools are stopped.
    Stopping VMware Tools services in the virtual machine:
       Guest operating system daemon:                              done
       VMware User Agent (vmware-user):                          done
       Blocking file system:                                               done
       Unmounting HGFS shares:                                      done
       Guest filesystem driver:                                           done
    Stopping Thinprint services in the virtual machine:
       Stopping Virtual Printing daemon:                              done
    update-rc.d: warning: start and stop actions are no longer supported; falling back to defaults
    update-rc.d: warning: start and stop actions are no longer supported; falling back to defaults
    The module vmci has already been installed on this system by another installer
    or package and will not be modified by this installer.
    The module vsock has already been installed on this system by another installer
    or package and will not be modified by this installer.
    The module vmxnet3 has already been installed on this system by another
    installer or package and will not be modified by this installer.
    The module pvscsi has already been installed on this system by another
    installer or package and will not be modified by this installer.
    The module vmmemctl has already been installed on this system by another
    installer or package and will not be modified by this installer.
    The VMware Host-Guest Filesystem allows for shared folders between the host OS
    and the guest OS in a Fusion or Workstation virtual environment.  Do you wish
    to enable this feature? [yes]
    Before you can compile modules, you need to have the following installed...
    make
    gcc
    kernel headers of the running kernel
    Searching for GCC...
    Detected GCC binary at "/usr/bin/gcc".
    The path "/usr/bin/gcc" appears to be a valid path to the gcc binary.
    Would you like to change it? [no]
    Searching for a valid kernel header path...
    Detected the kernel headers at "/lib/modules/3.19.0-15-generic/build/include".
    The path "/lib/modules/3.19.0-15-generic/build/include" appears to be a valid
    path to the 3.19.0-15-generic kernel headers.
    Would you like to change it? [no]
    make: Entering directory '/tmp/modconfig-O5xscq/vmhgfs-only'
    Using kernel build system.
    /usr/bin/make -C /lib/modules/3.19.0-15-generic/build/include/.. SUBDIRS=$PWD SRCROOT=$PWD/. \
      MODULEBUILDDIR= modules
    make[1]: Entering directory '/usr/src/linux-headers-3.19.0-15-generic'
      CC [M]  /tmp/modconfig-O5xscq/vmhgfs-only/backdoorGcc64.o
      CC [M]  /tmp/modconfig-O5xscq/vmhgfs-only/message.o
      CC [M]  /tmp/modconfig-O5xscq/vmhgfs-only/dir.o
      CC [M]  /tmp/modconfig-O5xscq/vmhgfs-only/rpcout.o
      CC [M]  /tmp/modconfig-O5xscq/vmhgfs-only/filesystem.o
      CC [M]  /tmp/modconfig-O5xscq/vmhgfs-only/cpName.o
      CC [M]  /tmp/modconfig-O5xscq/vmhgfs-only/request.o
      CC [M]  /tmp/modconfig-O5xscq/vmhgfs-only/module.o
    /tmp/modconfig-O5xscq/vmhgfs-only/dir.c: In function ‘HgfsPackDirOpenRequest’:
    /tmp/modconfig-O5xscq/vmhgfs-only/dir.c:417:26: error: ‘struct file’ has no member named ‘f_dentry’
                          file->f_dentry) < 0) {
                              ^
    /tmp/modconfig-O5xscq/vmhgfs-only/dir.c: In function ‘HgfsDirLlseek’:
    /tmp/modconfig-O5xscq/vmhgfs-only/dir.c:707:32: error: ‘struct file’ has no member named ‘f_dentry’
        struct dentry *dentry = file->f_dentry;
                                    ^
    In file included from /tmp/modconfig-O5xscq/vmhgfs-only/dir.c:39:0:
    /tmp/modconfig-O5xscq/vmhgfs-only/dir.c: In function ‘HgfsReaddirNextEntry’:
    /tmp/modconfig-O5xscq/vmhgfs-only/dir.c:993:31: error: ‘struct file’ has no member named ‘f_dentry’
        si = HGFS_SB_TO_COMMON(file->f_dentry->d_inode->i_sb);
                                   ^
    /tmp/modconfig-O5xscq/vmhgfs-only/module.h:89:62: note: in definition of macro ‘HGFS_SB_TO_COMMON’
    #define HGFS_SB_TO_COMMON(sb)             ((HgfsSuperInfo *)(sb)->s_fs_info)
                                                                  ^
    /tmp/modconfig-O5xscq/vmhgfs-only/dir.c:1082:26: error: ‘struct file’ has no member named ‘f_dentry’
              *entryIno = file->f_dentry->d_inode->i_ino;
                              ^
    In file included from /tmp/modconfig-O5xscq/vmhgfs-only/dir.c:30:0:
    /tmp/modconfig-O5xscq/vmhgfs-only/dir.c:1088:44: error: ‘struct file’ has no member named ‘f_dentry’
              *entryIno = compat_parent_ino(file->f_dentry);
                                                ^
    /tmp/modconfig-O5xscq/vmhgfs-only/./shared/compat_fs.h:120:46: note: in definition of macro ‘compat_parent_ino’
    #define compat_parent_ino(dentry) parent_ino(dentry)
                                                  ^
    /tmp/modconfig-O5xscq/vmhgfs-only/dir.c:1093:52: error: ‘struct file’ has no member named ‘f_dentry’
          *entryIno = HgfsGetFileInode(&entryAttrs, file->f_dentry->d_inode->i_sb);
                                                        ^
    /tmp/modconfig-O5xscq/vmhgfs-only/dir.c: In function ‘HgfsDoReaddir’:
    /tmp/modconfig-O5xscq/vmhgfs-only/dir.c:1173:13: error: ‘struct file’ has no member named ‘f_dentry’
           !(file->f_dentry) ||
                 ^
    /tmp/modconfig-O5xscq/vmhgfs-only/dir.c:1174:13: error: ‘struct file’ has no member named ‘f_dentry’
           !(file->f_dentry->d_inode)) {
                 ^
    scripts/Makefile.build:257: recipe for target '/tmp/modconfig-O5xscq/vmhgfs-only/dir.o' failed
    make[2]: *** [/tmp/modconfig-O5xscq/vmhgfs-only/dir.o] Error 1
    make[2]: ** Esperando que outros processos terminem.
    Makefile:1394: recipe for target '_module_/tmp/modconfig-O5xscq/vmhgfs-only' failed
    make[1]: *** [_module_/tmp/modconfig-O5xscq/vmhgfs-only] Error 2
    make[1]: Leaving directory '/usr/src/linux-headers-3.19.0-15-generic'
    Makefile:120: recipe for target 'vmhgfs.ko' failed
    make: *** [vmhgfs.ko] Error 2
    make: Leaving directory '/tmp/modconfig-O5xscq/vmhgfs-only'
    The filesystem driver (vmhgfs module) is used only for the shared folder
    feature. The rest of the software provided by VMware Tools is designed to work
    independently of this feature.
    If you wish to have the shared folders feature, you can install the driver by
    running vmware-config-tools.pl again after making sure that gcc, binutils, make
    and the kernel sources for your running kernel are installed on your machine.
    These packages are available on your distribution's installation CD.
    [ Press Enter key to continue ]
    The vmxnet driver is no longer supported on kernels 3.3 and greater. Please
    upgrade to a newer virtual NIC. (e.g., vmxnet3 or e1000e)
    The vmblock enables dragging or copying files between host and guest in a
    Fusion or Workstation virtual environment.  Do you wish to enable this feature?
    [yes]
    VMware automatic kernel modules enables automatic building and installation of
    VMware kernel modules at boot that are not already present. This feature can be
    enabled/disabled by re-running vmware-config-tools.pl.
    Would you like to enable VMware automatic kernel modules?
    [no]
    Thinprint provides driver-free printing. Do you wish to enable this feature?
    [yes]
    Disabling timer-based audio scheduling in pulseaudio.
    Do you want to enable Guest Authentication (vgauth)? [yes]
    Detected X server version 1.17.1
    Distribution provided drivers for Xorg X server are used.
    Skipping X configuration because X drivers are not included.
    Creating a new initrd boot image for the kernel.
    update-initramfs: Generating /boot/initrd.img-3.19.0-15-generic
       Checking acpi hot plug                                              done
    Starting VMware Tools services in the virtual machine:
       Switching to guest configuration:                                   done
       Blocking file system:                                               done
       VMware User Agent:                                                  done
       Guest operating system daemon:                                      done
       Starting Virtual Printing daemon:                                   done
    The configuration of VMware Tools 9.9.2 build-2496486 for Linux for this
    running kernel completed successfully.
    You must restart your X session before any mouse or graphics changes take
    effect.
    You can now run VMware Tools by invoking "/usr/bin/vmware-toolbox-cmd" from the
    command line.
    To enable advanced X features (e.g., guest resolution fit, drag and drop, and
    file and text copy/paste), you will need to do one (or more) of the following:
    1. Manually start /usr/bin/vmware-user
    2. Log out and log back into your desktop session; and,
    3. Restart your X session.
    Enjoy,
    --the VMware team
    I tried to use these instructions to solve the problem:
    http://rglinuxtech.com/?p=1281
    compiling - VMWare player and Ubuntu 15.04: net driver does not compile anymore, how to fix? - Ask Ubuntu
    However, I don't have the /usr/lib/vmware/modules/source with vmnet.tar file.
    I just have /usr/lib/vmware-tools/modules/source with the following files:
    legacy    vmblock.tar    vmhgfs.tar    vmsync.tar    vmxnet.tar    pvscsi.tar    vmci.tar    vmmemctl.tar    vmxnet3.tar    vsock.tar
    How I resolve this problem?
    Thank You!

    Now It's working for me! :-) Thanks kikitora for the correct answer and Rahul Jha for this tutorial:
    Please ensure that latest Workstation 11 is installed.
    Make sure open-vm-tools is not installed.
    sudo apt-get remove open-vm-tools
    1. Make sure the updates are done:
    sudo apt-get update
    2. Make sure git is installed
    sudo apt-get install git
    3. Run the command to get the tools from repository.
    sudo git clone https://github.com/rasa/vmware-tools-patches.git
    4. cd to vmware-tools-folder
    cd vmware-tools-patches
    5. Run the patch
    sudo ./download-tools.sh
    6. Run the following patch
    sudo ./untar-and-patch.sh
    7. Run the complie.sh file
    sudo ./compile.sh

  • [SOLVED] Arch Linux Guest Virtual Box OSE problem

    So I am installing my Arch Linux as a Guest in my Ubuntu partition, through Virtual Box OSE (3.2.8). I followed the wiki ( https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Ar … lBox_Guest ) but still have an issue:
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    sudo mount /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom
    sudo /mnt/cdrom/VBoxLinuxAdditions-x86.run
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    :: Building the VirtualBox Guest Additions Kernel Modules [BUSY]
    :: Building the main Guest Additions module [DONE]
    :: Building the shared folder support module [FAIL]
    (Look at /var/log/vboxadd-install.log to find otu what went wrong)
    :: Warning: Unknown version of the X Window System installed. Not installing X Window System drivers.
    :: Installing graphics libraries and desktop services components [Done]
    /var/log/vboxadd-install.log states:
    /tmp/vbox.0/vfsmod.c:406:9: error: unknown field 'clear_inode' specified in initalizer
    /tmp/vbox.0/vfsmod.c:406:9 warning: initalization from incompatible pointer type.
    Which is strange, because as far as I know, clear_inode is part of the linux headers.
    Any idea why this is happening? Do I just need to update VirtualBox to a newer version?
    Last edited by gralamin (2011-03-11 18:22:14)

    Updating Virtualbox fixed the issue.

  • UEK R2 and Virtual Box Linux additions

    Hello
    thanks for the support from Avi Miller I was able to install the UEK R2 on OL 6.2 VM.
    It all worked well but the Virtual Box 4.1.10 Linux Guest Additions stopped working properly after UEK R2 was installed and the VM rebooted (screen resolution to be exact).
    So I simply re-installed VB Linux guest additions after the UEK R2 was installed, for the second time.
    It seemed to work OK even though I did receive a UEK related warning message during VB Linux Guest additions installation .....
    Once I rebooted after VB Guest Additions were re-installed it seems to be working again.
    I am just curious if there is a recommended order procedure re installing UEK R2 inside a VB 4.1.10 VM guest ?
    Should I rebuild the VM from stratch and first install UEK R2 before installing VB Linux Guest Additions and then install VB Linux Guest Additions after UEK R2 is updated?
    Does the installation order matter?
    I am concerned that VB Linux Guest additions somehow corrupts parts of UEK R2 since it's not aware of UEK R2 existance?
    Perhaps there wiill be a new release of the VB Linux Guest Additions for Oracle Linux 64-bit that is compatible with UEK R2 ?
    many thanks!

    thanks!
    In this case I think I have done the right thing "by accident"! 8^)
    Here is what I have done: (note the warning message re kernel headers not found.....)
    [root@YURIOL62 init.d]# ./vboxadd setup
    Removing existing VirtualBox DKMS kernel modules [  OK  ]
    Removing existing VirtualBox non-DKMS kernel modules [  OK  ]
    Building the VirtualBox Guest Additions kernel modules
    The headers for the current running kernel were not found. If the following
    module compilation fails then this could be the reason.
    The missing package can be probably installed with
    yum install kernel-uek-devel-2.6.39-100.5.1.el6uek.x86_64
    Building the main Guest Additions module [  OK  ]
    Building the shared folder support module [  OK  ]
    Building the OpenGL support module [  OK  ]
    Doing non-kernel setup of the Guest Additions [  OK  ]
    You should restart your guest to make sure the new modules are actually used
    I hope this is all OK.
    My next step is to install Oracle RDBMS 11.2.0.3 (i.e. Grid+ASM+RDBMS) based on the new UEK R2 and new oracle validated replacement rpm on OL 6.2....
    Edited by: yurib on Apr 5, 2012 11:44 AM

  • Error installing virtual box guest additons

    On my windows 7 laptop I have virtual box 4.0 . I installed Oracle enterprise linux 5.5 and i want to make a shared folder . When i run VBoxLinuxAdditions.run I get the folowing :
    "Your system does not seem to be set up to build kernel modules . If the following module compilation fails then this could be the reason .
    The missing package can be probably installed with yum install kernel-devel-2.6.18-195.el5"
    After this it invite me to see the content of file /var/log/vboxadd-install.log . In this log it tell me it can not find the kernel sources .
    What can I do? I must download anothr version of Oracle enterprise linux? wihich one?
    Many thanks,
    Aurel

    Hello,
    I configured the yum tool (as I find out on http://public-yum.oracle.com/) and I run yum install kernel-devel . After that I run sh /media/VBOXADDITIONS_4.0.0_69151/VBoxLinuxAdditions.run
    The process of building kernel modules for Virtual Box additions is ending in error - it doesn't know about gcc tool. In what package there is this tool?
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  • Creating database on virtualbox shared folder

    Hi all,
    I have fedora 13 64bit, in a virtual box guest. (host is fedora as well).
    I would like to have a VM that has the oracle install, and then have a shared folder where all the database files live.
    That would allow me in a distributed environment to easily distribute datafiles for databases and keep the vm foot print small.
    Oracle install went fine, (10.2.0.5) but my issue is I can not create a database on the shared folder.
    Oracle complains that it is a NFS mount that wasn't mounted correctly. (ORA-27054: NFS file system... not mounted with correct options)
    But it's a vboxsf mount. I mounted it with the gid/uid of the owner of the folder in the host in read/write. I can create/delete/touch files in this mount
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    Edited by: 795575 on Sep 17, 2010 9:56 AM

    thx for the reply.
    1.) no only one vm would access the datafiles.
    The methodology helps where I can deploy the version of oracle that runs the database is deployed as a vm.
    The version of the database doesn't change often for the product. The database can change, often.
    To level set a host of machines where developers are working, unit test are running and so on. I can push
    a set of files that make up the database off to a bunch of different physical machines.
    Or people can simply grab the set of files and copy them.
    This allows an easy way to only push/pull the data files, without vm's even started. And to only to have to transmit
    that what has changed, the data files.
    2.) the uid/gid of the oracle user in the guest, and the user that owns the directory on the host are the same and are what I'm using in the mount command.
    I do not believe this is a rights issue. The oracle user can create/delete/edit/touch files in the shared folder in question.
    It's simply that oracle seems to think it's a nfs mount, which it is not.
    So just wondering if anyone else has solved this. thx...

  • Cannot delete file from shared folder

    While I was looking for another file in my shared folder, I discovered a jpg file named shannonhenry.jpg. All it appears to be is a school photo of a boy, maybe 14 or so. I tried to move it to trash to delete it because I do not know who this kid is, and I got an error message saying that I do not have sufficient priviledges. Anyone know what this file is or could be????

    Well Kelley, that photo did not come with the system so it had to come from you or someone else putting in the Shared folder.
    Choose the file and "get info" (command- i) turn the dislclosure triangle on "Ownership & Permissions" make sure you can "read & write" and make yourself the "owner"(open the lock and enter your admin password).
    Then check under General, turn the disclosure triangle and be sure the "locked" box in NOT checked.
    Let us know.
    -mj
    [email protected]

  • If I move my iTunes media folder to the Shared folder....

    Hello
    I'd like to share my music libary with my wife's user account on our MacBook Pro so she can get some of my music onto her iPhone. I've read the article on the Apple site as well as similar articles from other reputable Mac user websites and it seems simple enough.
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    Sorted - worked it out myself.
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  • How to remove a computer from my shared folder in Finder?

    Just purchased a new iMac. After setting up Wi-Fi network connection, from DSL, now have a unknown computer listed within the shared folder in Finder. Have no idea who this is, but want to remove it. How?

    Hi Vonni,
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    To see what they have access to, go to the Apple menu at the top left corner of the screen and start System Preferences. Inside there, you will see "Sharing". If you uncheck all of the boxes in there, there is little that anyone could do.
    David

  • I have run the gambit of Home Sharing Trouble Shooting and still have no shared folder on my Touch.  WTH?

    I'm at a loss.  I have done everything on Apple's Troubleshooting list to try to access my laptops music files on my Touch, but there is still no Shared folder in the More section of my Touch's music.  I've restarted and updated everything, unathorized and reauthorized both devices, toggled home sharing on/off, allowed the relevant ports to pass through my router's Firewall, and have turned off the Firewall on my laptop.  Nothing.  Nada.  It is a 4th gen Touch.  ***. 
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