Re: VirtualBox: shared folder broken ?

[Dominique Dumont <dod38fr@gmail.com>]

On Tuesday, 7 November 2017 14:28:03 CET Georgi Naplatanov wrote:
> Which Debian version/branch are you using - stable/testing/unstable?
> 
> Where did you get Virtualbox packages from?

Sorry, I forgot to mention that.

I'm on Debian/sid with using latest Debian packages:

$ dpkg -l virtualbox* |grep ii
ii  virtualbox                     5.2.0-dfsg-3   amd64        x86 virtualization solution - base binaries
ii  virtualbox-dkms                5.2.0-dfsg-3   all          x86 virtualization solution - kernel module sources for dkms
ii  virtualbox-ext-pack            5.2.0-2        all          extra capabilities for VirtualBox, downloader.
ii  virtualbox-guest-additions-iso 5.2.1-118452-1 all          guest additions iso image for VirtualBox
ii  virtualbox-guest-dkms          5.2.0-dfsg-3   all          x86 virtualization solution - guest addition module source for dkms
ii  virtualbox-guest-utils         5.2.0-dfsg-3   amd64        x86 virtualization solution - non-X11 guest utilities
ii  virtualbox-qt                  5.2.0-dfsg-3   amd64        x86 virtualization solution - Qt based user interface

> By the way, I'm using Debian 9 with Virtualbox 5.1 and it is working
> just fine. I downloaded VB 5.2 a few weeks ago but somehow IO was very
> slow and I downgraded VB back to 5.1.

I'd like to have a confirmation of the problem from other people before logging a bug.
Going back to testing is another option.

All the best

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