Trying to update the kernel-devel/kernel-headers to match the 4.4.x version, I ended up with a conflict and I was unable to update the kernel-headers with the 4.4.x version. So we have a pre-requisite of our pre-requisite, which consists of ' preparing guest for building external kernel modules'Īnd our HDP 2.6.4 doesn't seem ready: the running kernel (4.4.x id I'm right) and the kernel-devel and kernel-headers versions do not match), which is a condition that is checked during the installation process. In Virtualbox documentation Chapter 4 Guest Additions, it is said Not really ! The devil is inside the details. After a reboot though the files are gone again.The instructions given in the article avoid to mention a setup pre-requisite which is 'Installing VirtualBox Guest Additions' on the guest machine, that is to say installing it on our CentOS based HDP Sandbox VM.

I don't know what I'm doing differently each time, but sometimes after I edit fstab, issue mount -a without rebooting I can see the files there. When I issue mount -a AFTER I have edited the fstab I can sometimes get it to work. None of them reproduce the correct content in / srv. I read there is an issue with filesystems being mounted before virtualbox utilities are loaded, so I added vboxsf to my /etc/modules and then repeated the steps above. I've edited /etc/fstab to look like this: share /srv vboxsf defaults 0 0Īfter doing this I used the command mount -a, also I rebooted, and I rebooted again with the virtualbox shared folder settings to NOT auto-mount.

I want to move the mount point from /media/sf_share to simply /srv so that on my windows host I can edit files and they show up under /srv.

Virtualbox mounts the shared folder in /media/sf_share (the name I gave to the shared folder in the virtualbox settings was share). I have a test.txt file that I created in Windows and it shows up appropriately in my Ubuntu VM. I have a shared folder set up between virtualbox and my windows 7 host machine.

Virtualbox mount shared folder