Once you have the prereqs in place its time to install the Guest Additions. sudo yum groupinstall 'Developer Tools'Īnd the Kernel headers package so that the Guest Additions script can update your kernel. Make sure you have the Developer Tools installed. Start up your RHEL Guest VM and open up a Terminal. Keep your shared folder name simple such as ~/Data or ~/share instead of /home/quant/Scrivania/VirtualBox/Data as that may be another source for your issue.For VirtualBox(5.0.24) Host=Mac(El Capitan) and Guest=RHEL(7.2) If that step completes successfully on your Windows guest you should be able to run: ( /home/quant/Scrivania/VirtualBox/Data and ~/host may have to be reversed or changed to the appropriate names) Optionally select the 'Make permanent' optionĪfter you have completed that process, open your terminal on the host and run: sudo mount -t vboxsf -o uid=$UID,gid=$(id -g) /home/quant/Scrivania/VirtualBox/Data ~/host.Boot the Guest operating system in VirtualBox.Create a folder on the Host computer (ubuntu) that you would like to share, for example ~/share.They should be different (i.e share is called ~/share and mount point ~/host) You will also need to make sure you have followed these steps correctly: Your error: /sbin/mount.vboxsf: mounting failed with the error: No such device could be caused because you are mounting the SF with the same name for the share and mount point. Hope I has been clear when I asked the question. It seems like the folder does not exist although I manually create the local folder and set it as shared folder in the VirtualBox manager. Mount -t vboxsf Data /home/quant/Scrivania/VirtualBox/Data/Īt the point (3), I got the following error message in the terminal: /sbin/mount.vboxsf: mounting failed with the error: No such device GuestAddition installation, by running, as super-user:Īpt-get install virtualbox-guest-dkms virtualbox-guest-x11 linux-headers-$(uname -r)Ĭreating the candidate folder /home/quant/Scrivania/VirtualBox/Data by modifying the Oracle VirtualBox Manager settings (Shared Folders) In order to be able to get this, I followed these steps: 5.2.6) both the OSs work fine and I need to have a folder shared between those 2 operative systems. I'm running Debian 9 as Host and I installed correctly Windows 7 as guest by using Oracle VirtualBox (v.

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