In which case it would be good to know if this issue does or does not exist in other Fedora releases (9 or 10 for example). have total control over the permissions of files in a shared folder selinux is disabled on both the host and guest. Also note that both the native root file system on both the host and guest is ext4 there does not appear to be a mount.vbox man page and the descriptions of the dmode and fmode options do not seem to fit what I want to do, i.e. Share on /path/to/mount/point type vboxsf (uid=500,gid=100,rw) Configure Virtual Box to create shared folder We are all set at the Linux client so next all we need is to setup. Go to the Devices menu, select Shared Folders, and then select Machine. Install VBoxGuestAddition This is a mandatory pre-requisite if you wish to configure a shared folder with VirtualBox. How to install the Guest Additions If your guest includes a. # mount -t vboxsf -o rw,exec,uid=500,gid=100 share /path/to/mount/pointĪs an aside, if I subsequently execute mount, I see Open VirtualBox and select the virtual machine you want to share a folder with. To create shared folders with VirtualBox, you’ll need a running instance of VirtualBox and at least one guest up and running. This will allow you to use a common clipboard, meaning you will be free to copy/paste text/images and files between the virtual machine and your host PC. To summarize, with a Fedora 11 64 bit host and a Fedora 11 32 bit guest on VirtualBox 3.0.4 (OSE), I am unable to change any permissions (chmod) for files in shared folder mounted as: Drag & Drop and Shared Clipboard The simplest option to transfer files between your host PC and a virtual machine is to set up a shared clipboard and/or drag and drop. Before you can enable shared folders on the host machine, make sure you have installed VirtualBox Guest Additions software on the guest machine. The issue is documented in the VirtualBox forum - - is the last entry as of the reopening of this ticket). To share a host folder with a virtual machine in VirtualBox, you must specify the path of that folder and choose for it a share name that the guest can use to. I reopened this ticket since the problem exists with a Fedora 11 (64 bit host and 32 bit guest) host/guest pair.
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