Date: Wed, 6 Nov 2019 11:56:30 -0500 From: Nicholas Papadonis <nick.papadonis.ml@gmail.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: How do you mount a Virtualbox shared folder? Group or permissions issue? Message-ID: <CAKD0t1JEuNrzhsW5gx5Sz0Yrq_qnuPo_Dvz10SjJV7mQa7zAjQ@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <CAKD0t1KrEhPG4--2f9J%2BcSVXdDp_JNv7Ztv0PG1eHdPC-NuUKg@mail.gmail.com> References: <CAKD0t1KrEhPG4--2f9J%2BcSVXdDp_JNv7Ztv0PG1eHdPC-NuUKg@mail.gmail.com>
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Has anyone tested FreeBSD inclusive VirtualBox drivers with VirtualBox 6.0? I looked on the manual page, however it is referencing Sun Microsystems. Therefore I'm considering this manual page about 10 years outdated. https://www.freebsd.org/doc/handbook/virtualization-guest-virtualbox.html Thank you On Wed, Nov 6, 2019 at 12:40 AM Nicholas Papadonis < nick.papadonis.ml@gmail.com> wrote: > Does anyone know the procedure for a non-root user to gain access to > Virtualbox shared folders? > > This was fairly straightforward in Debian, however I'm having challenges > with FreeBSD. It looks like a group and permissions issue. In Debian, I > simply created a group "vboxsf", added my unprivileged user to it, chgrp > the mount folder and then mounted. I tried this in FreeBSD I used this > procedure, however the group gets changed on the folder to "wheel" after > mounting the shared folder. > > Your guidance appreciated. > > $ mkdir /mnt/srcr > > $ ls -ld /mnt/srcr > drwxr-xr-x 2 root vboxsf 512 Nov 6 00:03 /mnt/srcr > > $ sudo mount -t vboxvfs Source /mnt/srcr > > $ ls -ld /mnt/srcr > drwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 576 Oct 14 21:45 /mnt/srcr > > $ whoami > np > $ pwd > /mnt/srcr > $ ls /mnt/src > drwx------ 10 root wheel 320 Oct 14 21:35 X/ > $ ls /mnt/src/X > ls: X/: Permission denied > >
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