Porteus

Hi everyone I ran Porteus in virtualbox through an .iso included also a guest addition module in it with the help of poweriso and the guest addition worked flawlessly but I am not able to create a shared folder through which I can share my files between my guest and the host machine can someone help me

Note the extensions are also installed

The instructions in the help menu of virtual box are self-explanatory. You need the virtualbox guest additions for the share folder.

Edited: I might come back with more explicit explanations tomorrow. I might find some time to finish that type of installation. I am a little rusted with vbox.

If you don't know where is Help menu, then have an URL instead https://www.virtualbox.org/manual/ch04. ... redfolders

Hum! I get some problem of space with my vbox virtual partitions. I get an error message saying that the disk is full, while gparted tells me that there is more than enough. I will have to fix this before working with the share folder issue.

Installing a shared folder for a porteus guest in a linux host.

1.0 start your porteus or linux os in vbox
2.0 install the guest additions and reboot
3.0 In the vbox menu at the top of your guest window:
Devices > shared folders > shared folders settings > machine folders > folder + (at right) > other (for whatever folder on your hdd host)
4.0 Once the selected folder is choosen, for example /mnt/sda5, you have to mount it:
example for selecting /mnt on hdd of the guest: in which "mnt" is sda5 for example

You will find the tree of folders of /mnt/sda5 in your porteus guest /mnt/shares

francois wrote:Installing a shared folder for a porteus guest in a linux host.

1.0 start your porteus or linux os
2.0 install the guest additions
3.0 In the vbox menu at the top of your gues window:
Devices > shared folders > shared folders settings > machine folders > folder + (at right) > other (for whatever folder on your hdd host)
example for selecting /mnt/sda7 on hdd:

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root@porteus:~# mkdir /mnt/shares
root@porteus:~# mount -t vboxsf sda7 /mnt/shares
root@porteus:~# 

You will find the tree of folders of /mnt/sda7 in your porteus guest /mnt/shares

Thanks a ton

Edited my above post for a better description of the procedure.

Is this thread solved to the satisfaction of the demander?

I thank myself for such useful information on shared folders. Without this thread I would have to do some research again. 8)

I like necro bumping, as I think that information does not become obsolete with time, but on the contrary like red wine, is grewing better in maturity. Unless, the contrary.

This thread is still useful and alive.

Modified post for more precision on where to mount the /mnt/shares, that is on the guest.