If I had installed installed virtualbox-guest-dkms and virtualbox-guest-utils from the Ubuntu repositories instead, then this would have been the command that I needed to execute instead of the above. Sudo systemctl edit -full vboxadd-service The latter observation made the problem intrinsic to the Ubuntu VM itself.īecause I install the Guest Additions software from the included virtual CD, I executed the following command to open the relevant file for editing: Also, no other VM (Windows (7 & 10) and Linux Mint Debian Edition) on the same Linux Mint 19.2 machine was experiencing the same issue. The usual checks on Guest Additions installation and vboxsf group access assignment were performed but were not causing the issue. Over the weekend, I finally got to fixing a problem that has affected Ubuntu 18.04 virtual machine for quite a while. folders not automounting on an Ubuntu 18.04 guest in a VirtualBox virtual machine 1st October 2019 This is because the Host OS (Windows) doesn’t support the same permission system as Linux, so VirtualBox has no way of knowing who should own the files. So you wouldn’t worry about changing their permissions (which don’t make sense on the Windows host), you just give yourself access. By adding your user to that group, you gain full access. The regular way of getting access to the files now, is to allow VirtualBox to automount the shared folder (which will make it show up under /media/sf_directory_name) and then to add your regular Ubuntu user to the vboxsf group. There was above all a lack of clear instructions about how to just get this done, and move on with the rest of your day.Ĭonfigure the shared folder to be auto-mounted (it’s a setting on the Shared Folder configuration in VirtualBox itself). One of the critical “settings” in such a situation is the setting up of a “shared-folder” in which you can transfer files between the windows host and the Ubuntu-Mate guest. Sometimes you may need to run Ubuntu-Mate in a VirtualBox virtual machine, for example at your place of work.
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