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I am new to programs and searching the “/sbin/mount.vboxsf: mounting failed with the error: no such device” to understand it better. It seems it doesn’t work as expected when I used some suggestions before. Here is the command line I use:
sudo mount -t vboxsf myfolder /home/user/myfolderThe error I’m getting is below:
/sbin/mount.vboxsf: mounting failed with the error: No such devicePlease give me the solution to this issue.
The cause: I thinnk this error happens because of some reason (probably due to a patch installation on your virtual machine).
And the result is:
Solution: You can fix this error by stopping vboxadd and performing a setup later:
At this point, if you continue to get the error:
Please install linux headers:
then you can set up Guest Additions:
after that, start again your Linux by:
Finally you can mount your shared folder!
My shared folder/clipboard suddenly stopped working (possibly due to a patch installed on my virtual machine).
sudo mount -t vboxsf Shared_Folder ~/SF/The following result was obtained:
VirtualBox: mount.vboxsf: mounting failed with the error: No such deviceI solved the problem by stopping vboxadd, and then setting up