[Tfug] VirtualBox: Shared Folders on Debian Lenny

[Charles R. Kiss]

I'm having trouble getting the VirtualBox/Shared Folders thing to work on  
Lenny.

I don't want to do the Samba thing unless I absolutely must. Or would  
rather do it by choice than by necessity.

I guess I can't get some modules compliled, loaded: vboxadd,  
mount.vboxfs...??  I was warned not to load them unconditionally, and to  
allow udev to do the work, or is everything packed into vboxdrv???  Any  
Ideas? Links?

Thanks!!!

ps.

After 1) booting WindowsXP, downloading updates (SP3); in the Konsole  
several times and experimenting; and Installing Guest Additions on via  
"Device" Tab on GUEST
           2)and getting, "Successfully installed the VirtualBox Guest  
Additions." message on command line HOST
           3)and, /etc/init.d/vboxdrv setup


Other Messages:

1)

# lsmod | grep vbox
vboxnetflt             90220  0
vboxdrv              1684268  1 vboxnetflt

2)

# mount -t vboxsf share /home/charles/VBoxShare
/sbin/mount.vboxsf: mounting failed with the error: No such device

3) The "Machine" is named VirtualXP,

# VBoxManage sharedfolder add "VirtualXP" -name "share" -hostpath  
/home/charles/VBoxShare
VirtualBox Command Line Management Interface Version 2.1.4
(C) 2005-2009 Sun Microsystems, Inc.
All rights reserved.

[!] FAILED calling a->virtualBox->FindMachine(Bstr(a->argv[1]),  
machine.asOutParam()) at line 4159!
[!] Primary RC  = VBOX_E_OBJECT_NOT_FOUND (0x80BB0001) - Object  
corresponding to the supplied arguments does not exist
[!] Full error info present: true , basic error info present: true
[!] Result Code = VBOX_E_OBJECT_NOT_FOUND (0x80BB0001) - Object  
corresponding to the supplied arguments does not exist
[!] Text        = Could not find a registered machine named 'VirtualXP'
[!] Component   = VirtualBox, Interface: IVirtualBox,  
{339abca2-f47a-4302-87f5-7bc324e6bbde}
[!] Callee      = IVirtualBox, {339abca2-f47a-4302-87f5-7bc324e6bbde}


4) from dmesg

vboxadd: VirtualBox PCI device not found.



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