Aw: Shared Folders in FreeBSD guest on WinXP host

Bernhard Froehlich decke at bluelife.at
Sun Apr 25 06:40:01 UTC 2010


----- Ursprüngliche Mitteilung -----
> Hi
> Apologies in advance if this question i previously in the list
> somewhere, the search function for the list returns Internal Server
> Error.
>
> I'm trying to get Shared Folders to work on FreeBSD guest using WinXP host.
>
> FreeBSD: 8-STABLE
> kern.osreldate: 800504
>
> XP-host 3.1.6
> Guest Additions 3.1.51
>
> When I do:
> mount -t vboxsf vbshare /mnt
>
> I get:
>
> mount: vbshare : Operation not supported by device
>
> 'vbshare' is the name I've given to the folder in my vbox host

I've never tried it myself but as far as I know shared folders are not supported yet. But Clipboard sharing should work.

> What kernelmodules have to be loaded to enable mounting of shared folder?
> I've now loaded vboxdrv and vboxguest
>
> How can I best troubleshoot this?

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Bernhard Fröhlich
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