Mounts the subdirectory bar within the share foo to /var/lib/barįor Linux kernel prior to version 4.0, you can use VMware-specific options in addition to the standard mount syntax. host:/foo/bar /var/lib/bar -o subtype=vmhgfs-fuse,allow_other host:/foo /tmp/foo -o subtype=vmhgfs-fuse,allow_other host:/ /home/user1/shares -o subtype=vmhgfs-fuse,allow_other Mount Command Syntax Linux Kernel Prior to 4.0 The commands also vary depending on the Linux-kernel version of the guest. You can use different mount commands to mount all shares, one share, or a subdirectory within a share to any location in the file system. Linux kernels 4.0 and later use a FUSE file system component.

In Linux kernels prior to version 4.0, the VMware Tools services script loads a driver that performs the mount. Hope this saves someone somewhere some headaches, cause I couldn’t find anything about it on the Googles.After you enable a shared folder, you can mount one or more directories or subdirectories in the shared folder to any location in the file system in addition to the default location of /mnt/hgfs.ĭepending on the kernel version of the Linux guest operating system, VMware Tools uses different components to provide shared-folder functionality. It turns out that somehow, things got case-(in?)sensitive, and you need to specify the lower-case version of the Shared Folder name: mount -t vboxsf projects -o uid=1000,gid=1000 /home/fboender/Projects/ Mount -t vboxsf sf_Projects -o uid=1000,gid=1000 /home/fboender/Projects/ Mount -t vboxsf Projects -o uid=1000,gid=1000 /home/fboender/Projects/ Some combinations I tried: mount -t vboxsf /media/sf_Projects -o uid=1000,gid=1000 /home/fboender/Projects/ This fails on an Ubuntu 20.04 guest with the following error: /sbin/mount.vboxsf: mounting failed with the error: No such device or address Or with the equivalent fstab entry like this: Projects /home/fboender/Projects/ vboxsf defaults,uid=1000,gid=1000 0 0 In an Ubuntu 18.04 virtual machine in VirtualBox, I could define a Shared Folder like so:Īnd then mount it like this: mount -t vboxsf Projects -o uid=1000,gid=1000 /home/fboender/Projects/ Shared folder on Virtualbox Ubuntu 20.04 guest fails with “No such device or address”

Mount virtualbox shared folder