Virtual Box Shared Folder Drives Don't Automount in 16.04 to 18.04 upgraded Ubuntu MATE
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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Ubuntu MATE |
Expired
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Undecided
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Bug Description
I first ran across this in one of my main VMs when I tried the update. Everything went great, I re-applied the guest additions and voilà my shared folder drives mounted and I was in business. The next day when I fired up the VM they were missing. It was a hectic day, so I thought perhaps I had remembered it working so I applied the guest additions again. The drives reappeared. This time I rebooted to confirm it stuck but sadly they did not. I’ve continued to do some experimenting and have come to discover that while they are there the systemd process doesn’t seem to want to start on reboot even though it is set to. So to fix it I just need to do the following command to get them to show up:
sudo systemctl restart vboxadd-
I wasn’t having this problem on Ubuntu 18.04 or Ubuntu MATE 18.04 virgin machines so this was either a problem with the general Ubuntu 16.04 to 18.04 upgrade process or specific to Ubuntu MATE 16.04 to 18.04 upgrade. I therefore went about creating two brand new VMs, one each for mainline Ubuntu 16.04 and one for Ubuntu MATE 16.04 and then went through the upgrade process directly. Those steps are:
Fresh install OS with 3rd party and upgrades turned on
Follow https:/
Shutdown/Power on
Add user to the vboxsf group (sudo usermod -a -G vboxsf <username>)
Restart
Confirm Read/write access to shared folder drive
Bring up System graphical updater, do any additional updates
Invoke Upgrade to 18.04 through graphical system:
sudo apt update && sudo apt dist-upgrade
Perform upgrade and reboot
See if shared folder drive there
After Update re-apply kernel extensions
Restart
Confirm shared drive read/write access
I can repeatably show that mainline Ubuntu 16.04 goes through these updates without this artifact but the MATE version does not. Again, a fresh Ubuntu MATE 18.04 install doesn’t have this behavior at all.
tags: |
added: bionic removed: additions box guest ugrade virtual |
Changed in ubuntu-mate: | |
status: | New → Incomplete |
> On May 6, 2018 at 7:52 AM Hank Grabowski <email address hidden> wrote: service. service /virtualboxes. org/doc/ installing- guest-additions -on-ubuntu/ for installing guest additions /bugs.launchpad .net/bugs/ 1769453
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> Public bug reported:
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> I first ran across this in one of my main VMs when I tried the update.
> Everything went great, I re-applied the guest additions and voilà my
> shared folder drives mounted and I was in business. The next day when I
> fired up the VM they were missing. It was a hectic day, so I thought
> perhaps I had remembered it working so I applied the guest additions
> again. The drives reappeared. This time I rebooted to confirm it stuck
> but sadly they did not. I’ve continued to do some experimenting and
> have come to discover that while they are there the systemd process
> doesn’t seem to want to start on reboot even though it is set to. So to
> fix it I just need to do the following command to get them to show up:
>
> sudo systemctl restart vboxadd-
>
> I wasn’t having this problem on Ubuntu 18.04 or Ubuntu MATE 18.04 virgin
> machines so this was either a problem with the general Ubuntu 16.04 to
> 18.04 upgrade process or specific to Ubuntu MATE 16.04 to 18.04 upgrade.
> I therefore went about creating two brand new VMs, one each for mainline
> Ubuntu 16.04 and one for Ubuntu MATE 16.04 and then went through the
> upgrade process directly. Those steps are:
>
> Fresh install OS with 3rd party and upgrades turned on
> Follow https:/
> Shutdown/Power on
> Add user to the vboxsf group (sudo usermod -a -G vboxsf <username>)
> Restart
> Confirm Read/write access to shared folder drive
> Bring up System graphical updater, do any additional updates
> Invoke Upgrade to 18.04 through graphical system:
> sudo apt update && sudo apt dist-upgrade
> update-manager -d
> Perform upgrade and reboot
> See if shared folder drive there
> After Update re-apply kernel extensions
> Restart
> Confirm shared drive read/write access
>
> I can repeatably show that mainline Ubuntu 16.04 goes through these
> updates without this artifact but the MATE version does not. Again, a
> fresh Ubuntu MATE 18.04 install doesn’t have this behavior at all.
>
> ** Affects: ubuntu-mate
> Importance: Undecided
> Status: New
>
>
> ** Tags: additions box guest ugrade virtual
>
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> Virtual Box Shared Folder Drives Don't Automount in 16.04 to 18.04
> upgraded Ubuntu MATE
>
> Status in ubuntu-mate:
> New
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> Bug description:
> I first ran across this in one of my main VMs when I tried the update.
> Everything went great, I re-applied the guest additions and voilà my
> shared folder drives mounted and I was in business. The next day when
> I fired up the VM they were missing. It was a hectic day, so I
> thought perhaps I had remembered it working so I applied the guest
> additions again. The drives reappeared. This time I rebooted to
> confirm it stuck but sadly they did not. I’ve conti...