All,
I'm having a problem with a local VM i've setup recently. I've setup a RHEL6_64 (6.4) VM on my windows 7 laptop. I've installed the guest additions correctly. Via the Virtual Box control console, i've setup shared folders. I have a pre-established C:\TEMP folder, and I created a C:\VM_STORAGE folder. I've set these up to automount on the guest vm. They appear to be mounting correctly:
[root@v1dpruitt ~]# df -h
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/mapper/myvg-rootvol
49G 4.6G 42G 11% /
tmpfs 246M 0 246M 0% /dev/shm
/dev/sda1 194M 48M 137M 26% /boot
tmpfs 246M 4.0K 246M 1% /tmp
storage 466G 140G 327G 30% /media/sf_storage
temp 466G 140G 327G 30% /media/sf_temp
As you can see the current disk is showing my laptop disk size and it's mounted without problems.
The problem is that they don't seem to reflect reality. Both folders seem to be empty. Temp is filled with stuff that I move around (it's a working folder) on my host, but the VM shows empty.
To test, i created a file in each of these folders via the VM, and it is persisting:
[root@v1dpruitt ~]# echo bob > /storage/bob2
[root@v1dpruitt ~]# ls -l /temp
total 4
-rw-r--r--. 1 root root 4 Dec 6 18:22 bob1
[root@v1dpruitt ~]# ls -l /storage
total 4
-rw-r--r--. 1 root root 4 Dec 6 18:22 bob2
But this isn't reflecting in the windows folders. It's like it created them but there is no connection between the VM and the HOST's folder.. it just mounted from that disk, and created their own folders with no sharing.
This is a problem for me, and outside of how i need this to work.
Anyone have any experience with this?
Thanks,
Denny