specialist's tech: shared_folder_centos

src:
https://gist.github.com/larsar/1687725

notes:

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shared_folder_centos_virtualbox.txt

# The VirtualBox documentation[1] for how to install guest additions 

# for Linux on a virtual host is somewhat messy. So here is what 

# I did to make it work.

# Install the packages required

yum update

yum install gcc kernel-devel make

reboot

# Click: Devices/Install Guest Additions... 

# Mount the ISO image with the guest additions

mkdir /cdrom

mount /dev/cdrom /cdrom

# Install guest additions

/cdrom/VBoxLinuxAdditions.run

# Share a folder from the VirtualBox control panel, giving it a share name.

ls  /media/sf_<share_name>

# You could always mount the directory yourself as well

mkdir /a_folder_name 

mount -t vboxsf the_share_name /a_folder_name

[1] http://www.virtualbox.org/manual/ch04.html

aderowbotham commenteda year ago

I'm running a fresh installation of CentOS 6 and running ./VBoxLinuxAdditions.run fails at:
Building the main Guest Additions module [FAILED]

Also, clicking Devices/Install Guest Additions apparently has no effect. The shared folder does not appear in /dev or /media

Any ideas?

TravisPaul commenteda year ago

@aderowbotham, make sure you update.

I ignored the part about the update since I did so a few days earlier and within that time span there was a kernel-update so I got headers for a different kernel and received the same error as you. Updating, then compiling the additions worked for me.