How do you mount a Virtualbox shared folder? Group or permissions issue?

Nicholas Papadonis nick.papadonis.ml at gmail.com
Mon Mar 23 22:12:17 UTC 2020


What version of FreeBSD?  6.0?

> On Nov 7, 2019, at 9:38 AM, Mario Lobo <lobo at bsd.com.br> wrote:
> 
> On Wed, Nov 6, 2019 at 1:57 PM Nicholas Papadonis <
> nick.papadonis.ml at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> Has anyone tested FreeBSD inclusive VirtualBox drivers with VirtualBox
>> 6.0?  I looked on the manual page, however it is referencing Sun
>> Microsystems.  Therefore I'm considering this manual page about 10 years
>> outdated.
>> 
>> https://www.freebsd.org/doc/handbook/virtualization-guest-virtualbox.html
>> 
>> Thank you
>> 
>> On Wed, Nov 6, 2019 at 12:40 AM Nicholas Papadonis <
>> nick.papadonis.ml at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 
>>> Does anyone know the procedure for a non-root user to gain access to
>>> Virtualbox shared folders?
>>> 
>>> This was fairly straightforward in Debian, however I'm having challenges
>>> with FreeBSD.  It looks like a group and permissions issue.  In Debian, I
>>> simply created a group "vboxsf", added my unprivileged user to it, chgrp
>>> the mount folder and then mounted.  I tried this in FreeBSD I used this
>>> procedure, however the group gets changed on the folder to "wheel" after
>>> mounting the shared folder.
>>> 
>>> Your guidance appreciated.
>>> 
>>> $ mkdir /mnt/srcr
>>> 
>>> $ ls -ld /mnt/srcr
>>> drwxr-xr-x  2 root  vboxsf  512 Nov  6 00:03 /mnt/srcr
>>> 
>>> $ sudo mount -t vboxvfs Source /mnt/srcr
>>> 
>>> $ ls -ld /mnt/srcr
>>> drwxr-xr-x  1 root  wheel  576 Oct 14 21:45 /mnt/srcr
>>> 
>>> $ whoami
>>> np
>>> $ pwd
>>> /mnt/srcr
>>> $ ls /mnt/src
>>> drwx------  10 root  wheel  320 Oct 14 21:35 X/
>>> $ ls /mnt/src/X
>>> ls: X/: Permission denied
>>> 
>>> 
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> 
> Running VBox 6.0.8 on my desktop without problems.
> 
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