VirtualBox in general has been really fun and stable.  I did however have to watch out for some things.

• When upgrading VirtualBox, you should delete all snapshots and let them be integrated into your main image.
• Don't shutdown the VirtualBox guest by powering down or you may lose your OS.  Hope you made a snapshot

 

•  Installing VirtualBoxGuestAdditions:

  • Windows

    • Login to windows
    • Device/InstallGuestAdditions
  • Ubuntu
    • Login to ubuntu
    • Device/InstallGuestAdditions
    • Run these commands in a terminal:
      • cd /media/cdrom
      • sudo bash ./VBoxLinux*
  • Fedora
    • Login to Fedora
    • Device/InstallGuestAdditions
    • Run these commands:
      • cd /media
      • cd /VBOXADDITIONS_1.5.6_28297
      • sudo bash ./VBoxLinux* 

 

• Shared Folders
  • Guest Additions need to be installed
  • Setup the shared folders from the Device/Shared Folders menu
    • If you keep the default name, you will get an error message: mounting failed with the error: Protocol error
    • So if the share name was for example ReynoldTech, change it to ReynoldTechShare
    • Make a directory to mount this (as root)
      • mkdir /mnt/ReynoldTech
    • Run the command to mount the shared folder
      • mount -t vboxsf ReynoldTechShare /mnt/ReynoldTech

 

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