I am running Haiku in VirtualBox, with good success. The VirtualBox Guest Additions package enables the shared clipboard, which is a life-saver! But I haven’t been able to get shared folders working. Are shared folders supported?
mount -t vboxsf -p SharedFolderFullOfLolcats /mountpoint
Assuming I “mkdir” a folder named “/mountpoint” and chmod 777 it (and replace “SharedFolderFullOfLolcats” with my real shared folder name), I get a “mount: No such device” error.
Am I doing this correctly?
Details: I am currently running a GCC2 Hybrid nightly (50043), under VirtualBox 5.0.14, and got the “VirtualBox Guest Additions” package from HaikuDepot.
There are two options: either fix the driver so it doesn’t crash the kernel or use VMware with https://depot.haiku-os.org/vmware_addons which also has the same function which even if buggy (you can’t open some files (like jpeg) from shared folders directly) seems to work.
Another option, is to use FTP. I happen to run on VMWARE 8.x (with the guest addition), on a Mac. You can enable FTP on the Mac (host), quite easily and then just use the FTP client on Haiku to move files back and forth (get/put).
This is probably the wrong forum for this (no pun intended), but are there any notes from previous developers on where to start with the driver code? I’ve searched all the ways I know of, and haven’t seen anything specific.