shared folders on vista partially work

[Maciej Pilichowski]

Normally I use VB with host: opensuse, guest: winxp. But now I also installed VB with host: vista, guest: opensuse. Now, with latter configuration I get strange results for shared folders.

I can run typical bash commands like dir cd mkdir

I can run basic command-line utilities like bzip2 and everything works fine.

When I run midnight-commander I can access shared directories BUT on every cd I get "cannot read directory content".

So if I have shared folder SHARED with subdirectory SUB

when I run this cd SHARED mc

I get SUB in mc, but when I change dir in mc to SUB I get error. It is not mc fault because other tools behave similarly but with just bare "error" message.

[Maciej Pilichowski]

Host: Vista 32-bit, guest: opensuse 11.1 32-bit.

[viz]

I have the same problem, different environment.

• Host: Mac OS X 10.5.6
• Guest: Ubuntu 8.10 Desktop
• VirtualBox: 2.1.2

All bash commands (ls, mkdir, cd..) works. Nautilus works as well. Just Midnight-commander (the really needed tool) cannot display content of a shared directory ("cannot read directory content"). No matter which options I use for mounting.

There is one special thing I noticed: when I 'cd' the shared dir right after mounting it for the first time and I run 'mc' the directory content is displayed correctly. Just once. Never again.

[ET]

I have exactly the same problem. Host: Ubuntu 8.10 Server 64bit guests: Debian x86, Debian x64

I have a machine shared folder (host: /srv, named "x86"), mounted to /mnt in the guest: fstab: x86 /mnt vboxsf defaults 0 0

host and guest rights all 777. inside guest: ls works, but using mc I get an unable to read error. I do an ls, the structure appears in mc. but when changing an other dir, I have to re-ls again. It is VERY annoying.

[ET]

debian guest - mc cannot read shared folder

[ET]

debian guest - directory contents after mc error

[ET]

debian guest - mc suprisingly CAN read directory contents after done a simple "ls"

[wbrana]

It seems that problem is related to kernel version of guest.

Works: Ubuntu 8.04 with kernel 2.6.24

Doesn't work: Ubuntu 8.04 with kernel 2.6.25 and later Ubuntu 9.04 with kernel 2.6.29

Ubuntu is guest. Windows XP SP3 is host.

[wbrana]

still broken - Ubuntu 9.04 in VB 3.0.0

[qqq]

Confirm this.

Host: Vista x64 Guest: Debian Lenny VB: 3.0.2

[qqq]

But only if i am root user.

[zsero]

For me, on XP 64-bit host and Ubuntu 9.04 32-bit guest, I get errors in 2 out of 5 tries. I can just hit enter on the directory in MC and hit enter again to go up, and sometimes it throws errors, sometime it does not.

[zsero]

Ah, 3.0.6 PUEL.

For me, on XP 64-bit host and Ubuntu 9.04 32-bit guest, I get errors in 2 out of 5 tries. I can just hit enter on the directory in MC and hit enter again to go up, and sometimes it throws errors, sometime it does not.

[WGH]

Same here. Host: Windows 7 x64 Guest: Debian 5.03, kernel 2.6.26-2-amd64

[oliver nadj]

Dear Community, same problem with:

• Host: Linux 2.6.31-20-generic-pae Ubuntu 9.10 Karmic
• Guest: Linux 2.6.28-11-generic Ubuntu 9.04 Jaunty
• VirtualBox: 3.0.8 and 3.0.14

[Den]

Same problem for a long time already:

Host: Windows XP SP3 32bit Guest: Linux 2.6.26-2-686 Debian Virtualbox: from 2.x.x to 3.1.8

[Klaus Espenlaub]

I've did a quick experiment with 3.2.0_BETA3. Windows Vista 32bit host, Ubuntu 6.06 (dapper) guest. mc worked just fine, saw no errors whatsoever switching to a different directory.

[Klaus Espenlaub]

Just for the fun of it tried it again, Windows Vista 32bit host, Ubuntu 10.04 guest, kernel 2.6.32-21-generic. Mounted the shared folder, once without any special options and once assigning the ownership to the regular user. mc simply worked as it should.

So either I'm testing the wrong thing, the bug is long gone (did everyone update the guest additions?) or we fixed it sometime while working on 3.2.0 without realizing.

[Maciej Pilichowski]

I tried it too, but now I cannot install addons, so I cannot tell if this works or not.

[qqq]

This error does not exist in 3.2.0.

[Den]

This error has disappeared from version 3.2.6 of Oracle VirtualBox, when I reinstalled Guest Additions on linux guest.

[Klaus Espenlaub]

Thanks for the feedback, closing.