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auto-mounting shared folders in VirtualBox
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I am writing to ask what the effect of the auto-mounting process is in VirtualBox, and where the folders can be accessed within a guest Linux system if auto-mount is used. I have VirtualBox 4.0.4 installed on Mac OS 10.6.7, with Guest Additions apparently running correctly. The guest OS is Ubuntu 1…
Error Output
sudo mount -t vboxsf folder_name path_to_mount_point
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Fix for: auto-mounting shared folders in VirtualBox
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I had similar problems and found that my fstab wasn't auto mounting for some reason, whether I had the Auto mount checked or not. So I tried this approach instead and it worked fine: Create a directory to mount into (if you haven't already): Edit yo…
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