Opened 14 years ago
Closed 12 years ago
#8638 closed defect (fixed)
Guest Additions: Shared Folders Auto-Mount fails on RHEL4 => Fixed in SVN
Reported by: | Technologov | Owned by: | |
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Component: | guest additions | Version: | VirtualBox 4.0.4 |
Keywords: | Cc: | ||
Guest type: | Linux | Host type: | other |
Description (last modified by )
Host: Windows 7, x64, VBox 4.0.4 (and 4.0.0)
Guest: Linux - RHEL 4 (32+64bit)
When using new VBox 4.0 feature, called "Shared Folders Auto-Mount", it fails to Auto-mount on RHEL 4 guests, probably due to old kernel.
dmesg output:
vboxsf: no version for "RTSemFastMutexCreate" found: kernel tainted.
Manual mounting works fine. Auto-Mount works on other Linux guests.
-Technologov, 27.3.2011.
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Change History (16)
by , 14 years ago
Attachment: | RHEL 4 32-bit-2011-03-27-22-16-44.log added |
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comment:1 by , 14 years ago
Do you still get that message if you disable auto-mount? And in this case does manual mounting still work first time?
comment:2 by , 14 years ago
Do you still get that message if you disable auto-mount?
Yes.
And in this case does manual mounting still work first time?
Yes.
-Technologov
comment:5 by , 14 years ago
Update: this only happens if I create non-permanent (transient) shared folders.
Steps to reproduce:
- Start RHEL 4 VM (and pause it)
- Configure transient shared folders with auto mount.
- resume booting VM
Actual Result: VM will boot, but shared folder will not be auto-mounted.
-Technologov
comment:7 by , 14 years ago
If I understand comment 5 correctly, you are creating the folders to be mounted during the VMs boot. As far as I know the mounting is done at boot time - are you sure you aren't just adding them after the auto-mounting has already taken place?
comment:8 by , 14 years ago
I start VM and pause it at bootloader stage. This happens before GuestOS loads.
I am sure, because the same works with other Linuxes. Only RHEL4 fails.
comment:9 by , 14 years ago
And do the folders auto-mount if you add them before starting the VM? For that matter, do they auto-mount on the next boot if you add them while the machine is paused like you described?
comment:10 by , 14 years ago
And do the folders auto-mount if you add them before starting the VM?
Before you start VM you cannot add transient shared folders. Only permanent. Those work.
For that matter, do they auto-mount on the next boot if you add them while the machine is paused like you described?
No.
comment:11 by , 14 years ago
I don't think that auto-mounting of transient folders is supposed to work, although it seems that it does by chance in some guests. You say though that auto-mounting permanent folders does work, which is what is supposed to happen.
comment:13 by , 14 years ago
Nonetheless it is not a supported feature. I will take a look at it if I have to set up a RHEL/CentOS 4 guest for something else, but I'm afraid it isn't really the highest priority just now.
comment:14 by , 12 years ago
Description: | modified (diff) |
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Summary: | Guest Additions: Shared Folders Auto-Mount fails on RHEL4 → Guest Additions: Shared Folders Auto-Mount fails on RHEL4 => Fixed in SVN |
Actually the reason was a crash in VBoxService on old systems where libdbus is not installed. This will be fixed in the next maintenance release.
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