Comments on: Virtual Machines: Windows 7 host and Ubuntu 9.10 guest

By: chris

chris — Tue, 03 Aug 2010 19:18:39 +0000

I shared the host folder with the guest OS by changing the settings of my guest OS on VirtualBox. I also installed Guest Additions on the guest using VirtualBox’s interface. Have you installed Guest Additions on your Ubuntu guest? You’re entering the command on the guest, right?

By: mayur

mayur — Sun, 01 Aug 2010 12:14:04 +0000

hie.. I am using windows 7 as host and ubuntu 10 as guest…i tried to share folder from B: drive of windows 7 through Virtualbox .by the command
sudo mount -t vboxsf SharedFolder /mnt/SHARE

But it give me error called:
mount:unknown file system type ‘vboxsf’

Please clarify this problem.and give any solution

By: Daniel

Daniel — Fri, 16 Jul 2010 13:18:51 +0000

Thank you.. It helped be a lot. I was using the sudo mount -t vboxsf shared /home/daniel/shared command and didn’t work. Again, thanks alot.

By: chris

chris — Tue, 08 Jun 2010 22:39:12 +0000

Hi satvik,

Did you replace “shared” with the name of your shared folder? For example, I’m sharing my D:\ drive which VirtualBox calls D_DRIVE, so I changed it to “sudo mount -t vboxsf D_DRIVE /home/christopher/shared” which works.

By: satvik

satvik — Tue, 08 Jun 2010 18:02:12 +0000

The second part of adding the shared folder did not worked for me.
It showed the following error
/sbin/mount.vboxsf: mounting failed with the error: No such file or directory