I was trying to share some folders from my windows xp HOST to opensolaris GUEST. But always i got "Operation not applicable to FSType vboxsf".
even after 2 hours of googling i couldn't get the correct answer... And then came my (actually Sun's) mistake to sunlight... because in the virtual box's context help, it is given (look at the image below) that we have to issue "mount -t vboxsf share mount_point" to mount the shared folder.
But it is should NOT be
mount -t vboxsf share mount_point
(Operation not applicable to FSType vboxsf because there is nothing like that but vboxfs)
but it should be
mount -F vboxfs share mount_point
It does make sense vboxfs --> virtualbox filesystem
Atlast happy to have my files accessible in open solaris.
hope someone will land here to get helped.
Atlast happy to have my files accessible in open solaris.
hope someone will land here to get helped.
Hi Ram,
ReplyDeleteI've tried this syntax only:
mount -F vboxfs share mount_point
but still getting the same error! Using Window Vista as host and OSOL 2009.06 as guest in VBOX 3.1.4 with `Guest Additions' installed. Any idea what might be the reason?
mount -F vboxfs share "mount_point"
ReplyDeletein the above command the mount_point should be replaced with the actual (your shared folder) mount point...
are you sure that you had it correct?
Thanks ...
ReplyDelete