Bugs On VirtualBox

[Perf]

Hello everyone.
I'm french so sorry for my bad english ^^
I'm on Windows Vista and I need Salix on my computer for my homeworks. To aim to this and to avoid to "cut" my hard disc, I install VirtualBox.
I installed Salix and VirtualBox Addons without problems. But I want to create a shared folder between Vista and Salix.
That is the problem: I create a shared folder in VirtualBox and when I want to mount this folder on Salix (with command: mount -t vboxsf [Shared folder name] [/home/...]) Salix show me all possibilities of the command mount...
Have you an answer ?
I hope you understand me ^^"
Thank a lot.

[Shador]

I used it already successfully, so you're executing it in a wrong way: It must look like this:

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mount -t vboxsf <share dir name> <mount point>

For example if I shared the directory "/home/shador/test" and used "/mnt" as mount point, I had to use:

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mount -t vboxsf test /mnt

The files would then be accesible inside /mnt.

BTW Problems would have been the more appropriate section for this, as it's no bug of Salix.

[JRD]

A known bug of VirtualBox is that your mount point directory should not have the same name as your shared directory.

For example if you share the directory "test", you must not mount it in a folder /mnt/test, but in /mnt/mytest for example.

[Perf]

Hi and thanks for your answers but the problem stay:
my folder name is Salix on Windows and my foldr name on Salix is LINUX
I type:
mount -t vboxsf Salix /home/admin/Documents/LINUX

and the terminal respond:
in french:
mount: type inconnu de système de fichiers 'vboxsf'

in english:
mount: unknow type of files system 'vboxsf'

I'm lost u_u

(PS: sorry for bad section of this problem :s)

[gapan]

Are you sure you installed the guest additions? Were they installed properly? I'm guessing that there might have been some error messages which you didn't notice. You need the kernel-source package installed to be able to install the guest additions.

[Perf]

I've already installed it. The installation is sucessfull but I don't see the difference with and without Guest-Additions. I've reinstalled it 3 times!

[thenktor]

Guest additions are installed correctly if you can move the mouse in and out of the vbox window and if you can resize the vbox window.

[Shador]

The installation of the GuestAdditions has to be broken in some way or it would be working.

You need the kernel-source package installed to be able to install the guest additions.

[Perf]

hum
ok I've reinstalled the guest additions and I've detected a failure about kernels modules of VB Additions because of kernels of Salix. So, how I can install the package of kernel source of Salix ?
Sorry to spend your time for me...

[gapan]

Look in our wiki.