[IAEP] Accessing the hard drive of the host machine from a Virtual Box Sugar ?

[Caroline Meeks]

Hi Gary,
Thanks, I made progress. Now I am getting

I am getting "mount: unknown filesystem type 'vboxsf'"  any thoughts?

http://screencast.com/t/oT7bZaKPpm0

On Sun, Oct 4, 2009 at 6:58 PM, Gary C Martin <gary at garycmartin.com> wrote:

> Hi Caroline,
>
> On 4 Oct 2009, at 23:42, Caroline Meeks wrote:
>
>  Does anyone know how to bring files from the host's hard drive (I am on a
>> Mac) into a Sugar running in Virtual Box?
>>
>
> Sure. FWIW it's all in the VirtualBox help pdf (just go to the Help menu,
> and the Contents...) The quick route is:
>
> 1) Make sure you're not running or saved the sugar VM (can't change
> settings unless it's off)
> 2) Select your Sugar VM and open Settings
> 3) Select Shared Folders
> 4) Hit the + folder icon, choose a folder path (the pop-up has a standard
> Mac dialogue if you click Other...)
> 5) Give it a name, say shared_with_sugar (I don't usually tick the
> read-only as it is useful both ways)
> 6) You're done with settings, so launch your VM
> 8) In a VM Terminal window type
>
>        mkdir ~/shared_directory
>        sudo mount -o uid=500 -t vboxsf shared_with_sugar ~/shared_directory
>
> 9) You'll now see any shared files in here
>
> Next time you reboot the VM you'll need to just run the above mount command
> again. You can obviously point this set-up anywhere, so you could share
> ~/Desktop from your Mac to the VM somewhere, just depends how you work.
> Personally I just have a Sugar folder with all my Sugar related work.
>
> Regards,
> --Gary
>



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