Once configured, you can easily exchange files between the host and guest OS. Inside your VirtualBox virtual machine you can then mount this shared folder.
However, if I go through the file system where the shared folder is mounted (/media/sf_MyUserName) Dolphin has no problem.Ever needed to access a file inside your virtual machine, which resides on your host operating system? With the help of VirtualBox’s shared folders feature, you can select a folder on your host OS to share. The issue only arises if I click on the "sf_MyUserName" symbolic link that VirtualBox created. I upgraded to VirtualBox 5.0.0.0 with the extension pack, but this did not help.Īfter some time investigating, I have found the problem. Any attempt to navigate to the shared drive caused Dolphin to freeze. The problem reappeared when I upgraded to deb 8. I say it was somewhat fixed because if I tried to sort any directory in the shared folder, Dolphin would freeze. I googled, fixed it somewhat, but cannot remember what I did several months ago. This issue first appeared on my machine in Debian 7 (wheezy) on VirtualBox 4.3.3. Dolphin is fine with any other directory, however, on clicking on the shared drive, Dolphin freezes. On my configuration, the issue exhibits when I click on the shared folder from Dolphin. This issue still exists on a fresh install of VirtualBox 5.0.0 on Win 7 with fresh upgrade to debian 8 (Jessie) as a guest. This also allows me to sort in directories within the shared folder. My solution is to delete the symbolic link and navigate to the mount point ( /media/sf_MyUserName). It turns out that these are a security risk. So the problem is with symbolic links to the shared folder.
Anyone have any ideas what's going on, or how I can diagnose this? I've tried rebooting the VM, reinstalling the guest additions, deleting and recreating the shared folder, mounting it as root instead of my UID, all to no avail. On the other hand, writing to the mounted folder works: $ cat > ubuntu_share/test.txtĪnd then I can see the test.txt file show up in Windows just fine. Similarly if I try to view the folder in Nautilus I just get the wait cursor forever.
However, attempting to look at the contents of the mounted folder using ls simply presents a blinking cursor until I kill it with Ctrl+C. $ sudo mount -t vboxsf -o "rw,uid=1000,gid=1000,dmode=0755" ubuntu_share ubuntu_shareĭrwxr-xr-x 1 nreed nreed 0 Oct 28 16:37 ubuntu_share/ In the Ubuntu VM, I can mount the shared folder successfully: $ mkdir ubuntu_share It's configured in VirtualBox as permanent, but not auto-mount. On the Windows host, the shared folder is set up to point to C:\ubuntu_share. Writing to the shared folder, however, works fine. I'm trying to set up a shared folder, but attempting to read the folder from the Ubuntu VM appears to hang indefinitely. I'm running VirtualBox 4.2.18 with a Windows 7 host and Ubuntu 13.10 guest.
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