I removed the request to mount at /mnt/host and left that field blank.Īfter reboot, the /media/sf_host directory had been created as drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Aug 28 00:16 sf_host/Īnd the vboxservice status reports now automount Error: vbsvcAutomounterMountIt: Failed to mount 'host' on '/media/sf_host' because it is probably mounted elsewhereįor my first installation of guest additions I had used the guestadditions.iso inserted by the VBox system. automount Error: vbsvcAutomounterMountIt: Failed to mount 'host' on '/mnt/host' because it is probably mounted elsewhere In the sharefolders setting of the management dialog I had requested the mount point as /mnt/host and had created that directory in the guest before running the guest additions.Īfter reboot with guest additions installed, the systemctl status vboxservice shows this error. I don’t see that other people are having this problem, so clearly I’ve done something wrong. In my other experience this would be group owned by vboxsf and would be group writeable. I can manually force the mount sudo mount -t vboxsf host /mnt/hostĪnd this will mount the shared folder for listing but it is owned by root.

It looks like this should mount the shared folder I have configured through the VBox management GUI. I get to this point on the wiki sudo VBoxControl sharedfolders list -automount First time using Manjaro but I have been using VirtualBox for many years.

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