Bug 432326

Summary:	app-emulation/virtualbox-guest-additions should add group "vboxsf" to support automount shared folders
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	bugs.gentoo
Component:	New packages	Assignee:	Patrick Lauer <patrick>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	minor	CC:	bkohler, mk, polynomial-c, proxy-maint, swapon
Priority:	Normal
Version:	10.0
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description bugs.gentoo 2012-08-22 17:25:35 UTC

Please see http://www.virtualbox.org/manual/ch04.html#sf_mount_auto

Please add the group vboxsf in the ebuild and create a note like 

elog "Please add users to the \"vboxsf\" group so they can"
elog "have share folders automatically mounted"

Comment 1 Maxim Kammerer 2012-08-24 04:37:28 UTC

There is already a "vboxguest" group. I would guess that substituting it in getgrnam("vboxsf") in src/VBox/Additions/common/VBoxService/VBoxServiceAutoMount.cpp should do the trick.

Comment 2 Arne Hormann 2012-10-23 10:19:47 UTC

Please do not modify the sources but implement the fix by adding the group and a /media directory - every documentation out there (and probably quite some tools and scripts) uses these defaults and it is extremely confusing and frustrating to search for the reason why your own configuration fails.

Comment 3 aabarkley3 2014-12-16 16:22:07 UTC

The oldest version in the tree is 4.2.24. Is this still relevant?