virtualbox shared folder access

**ahaider7** · 10-01-2010

Hi guyz,

I have installed Fedora 13 as a guest OS in virtualbox, on a windows host. I need to share files between host and the guest. Virtualbox provides a shared folders feature for this purpose. But before using shared folders, Virtualbox Guest Additions has to be installed in guest machine. I am stuck at this step.

While installing the Guest Additions, I get this message

Code:

Building the VirtualBox Guest Additions kernel modules     [FAILED]
Your system does not seem to be set up to build kernel modules.
Look at /var/log/vboxadd-install.log to find out what went wrong.  Once you have corrected it, you can
run

  /etc/init.d/vboxadd setup

to build them.
Doing non-kernel setup of the Guest Additions              [  OK  ]

Looking at the file /var/log/vboxadd-install.log, here is the error message

Code:

Makefile:23: *** Error: unable to find the sources of your current Linux kernel. Specify KERN_DIR=<directory> and run Make again..  Stop.
Creating user for the Guest Additions.
Creating udev rule for the Guest Additions kernel module.

How can I remove this error. I have these packages already installed (all of same version)
kernel
kernel-devel
kernel-headers

**ved** · 10-01-2010

I m not sure your kernel is kernel-PAE OR NOT you also try after installing kernel-PAE-devel-2.6.34.7-56.fc13.i686 .

**ahaider7** · 10-02-2010

Originally Posted by ved

I m not sure your kernel is kernel-PAE OR NOT you also try after installing kernel-PAE-devel-2.6.34.7-56.fc13.i686 .

Executing the command

Code:

rpm -qa | grep kernel

gives:

Code:

abrt-addon-kerneloops-1.1.13-2.fc13.i686
kernel-2.6.34.7-56.fc13.i686
kernel-devel-2.6.34.7-56.fc13.i686
kernel-PAE-2.6.33.3-85.fc13.i686
kernel-headers-2.6.34.7-56.fc13.i686
kernel-PAE-2.6.34.7-56.fc13.i686

I shall now try after installing PAE-devel package.

**ahaider7** · 10-02-2010

First step is completed successfully. Installing kernel-PAE-devel does the job. Guest Additions is successfully installed.

But there are still some problems ahead

. Next step is mounting the shared folder in linux host. I tried the command

Code:

mount -t vboxsf share /mnt/win

but it results in

Code:

/sbin/mount.vboxsf: mounting failed with the error: Protocol error

Any Idea whats going on?

**ved** · 10-02-2010

Now i m not using VB but it may be help read this

HTML Code:

http://www.giannistsakiris.com/index.php/2008/04/09/virtualbox-access-windows-host-shared-folders-from-ubuntu-guest/

**ahaider7** · 10-02-2010

Originally Posted by ved

Now i m not using VB but it may be help read this

HTML Code:

http://www.giannistsakiris.com/index.php/2008/04/09/virtualbox-access-windows-host-shared-folders-from-ubuntu-guest/

Thank you very much. Thats a good guide.

**ved** · 10-02-2010

did you able to sheared your file with window or not ?

**ahaider7** · 10-04-2010

Yes, I was able to do that

. It works great

**ved** · 10-04-2010

ok enjoy the linux

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