VirtualBox: sharing files between the host and guest OS
How do I share files between the host OS and guest OS? (Both are Linux.)
The version of VirtualBox I'm using is 4.0.8 r71778.
Until recently, I was using an older version of VirtualBox and had no difficulty sharing files between the host and guest OS. In VirtualBox 4.0, I have yet to successfully do so.
The directory I'm sharing is ~/share under the guest OS and /mnt/host under the host OS. When I enter "mount -t vboxsf share /mnt/host", I get the error message "/sbin/mount.vboxsf: mounting failed with the error: Invalid argument".
The package dkms is already installed in the guest OS. I also installed the build-essential package in the guest OS, but the file sharing still refuses to work.
Yes, I have the shared folders set up under the Devices -> Shared Folders menu. And both the ~/share folder in the guest OS and /mnt/host in the guest OS exist.
So what little detail am I missing?
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Jason Hsu <jhsu802701@jasonhsu.com>
Founder and lead developer of Swift Linux (http://www.swiftlinux.org)
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