Since we use Windows Vista as default, we are used to load virtual machines to try linux stuff, and it will be nice if we can share folders between host (windows) and guest (linux) machines.
The document “shared folders” had some traps, and I can’t make it work, below are list some important steps to get it work
Envrionment
Ubuntu 11.04 (Natty) as guest OS and Virtualbox as virtual machine management tools
Install Guest Additions
Virtualbox Guest Additions should be installed for shared folders, it is a .iso files to be mounted, when it is mounted in guest OS (Ubuntu), it can be executed
Install linux kernel
I met the following error when I try to install the guest additional
[guest] # cat /var/log/vboxadd-install.log Makefile:23: *** Error: unable to find the sources of your current Linux kernel. Specify KERN_DIR=<directory> and run Make again.. Stop.
After googled, I found the good article http://blog.oracle48.nl/adding-shared-folders-to-virtual-box-guest-using-the-command-line/, later I noticed it existed inside chapter 4 as well.
Therefore I need to install dkms package and related headers (it depends on which kernel you use)
apt-get install dkms apt-get install linux-headers-2.6.38-11-generic
Shared folder from host to guest
it can be easily configured in virtual machines’ setting, if you set it automatically, it will exist when reboot
If it goes well, you will see it /media/sf_sdcamp, which works if you run in root id, and as documented, you can also mount it for normal user.
mount –t vboxsf sdcamp /mnt/sdcamp
/mnt/sdcamp should be created in advance
Anyway, now it works very well, I edited in Windows Environment, and run some specical commands under linux environment
Tags: virtualbox