Mounting a VirtualBox shared folder on boot with fstab in OpenSuse 11.3
- by ccook
I have followed the steps found here, however, the share is not mounted on boot. The share will mount if i run 'mount -a' after booting. Why would the share not mount on boot?
1 - Set up a Virtual Machine and
install OpenSUSE 11.2
2 - Create a shared folder on host
(HostFolder)
3 - Setup the shared folder in
Virtualbox Via the Virtual Machine
details or via Devices Shared
Folders...
4 - Install dependencies for running
the Virtualbox installer You need to
install the right development
kernelpackage for your machinetype
(use 'zypper search -i kernel' to see
what's installed) sudo zypper install make gcc
kernel-source
kernel-hosttype/default-devel
5 - Run the Virtual Machine and go to
Devices Guest Additions This mounts
an iso image in your OpenSUSE guest.
6 - Open a root terminal and run
cd /usr/src/linux make oldconfig &&
make prepare && make scripts && make
dep cp
../linux-obj/$HOSTTYPE/default/Module.symvers
. make prepare
A commenter on previously mentioned thread says this step is unnecessary
but it doesn't work without on my
system. I suggest trying step 7 first
and returning to step 6 if that fails.
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7 - Run ./VirtualboxLinux yourhosttype
.run from the mounted iso image.
8 - Create shared folder in OpenSUSE
(GuestFolder)
9 - Test with sudo mount -t vboxsf
HostFolder /home/user/GuestFolder
It works? Great! Let's set up the
system so it automounts for your
regular useraccount instead of
root-only access.
10 - Add this line to /etc/fstab
HostFolder /home/user/GuestFolder
vboxsf defaults,uid=1000,gid=1000 0 0
11 - It works for me but if it still
doesn't automount after a reboot; sudo
mount -a
