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Error while mounting directory from host via NFS

I've been looking around the site but I couldn't find anyone with the same problem. On VirtualBox, I have a machine with IP *.28 and another one with IP *.20. The latter should mount a directory ...
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1answer
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fstab not mounting VirtualBox shared folder?

I have a virtual machine here which I use for development, so as not to mess anything up in my existing environment. I've made a share named "web" available to the guest OS (Ubuntu 12.10 Server) ...
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1answer
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Gedit cannot save in shared folder (Virtualbox)

I'm getting the "Cannot save _ Unexpected error: Error renaming temporary file: Text file busy" in Gedit 2 when I try to save in a shared folder with Virtualbox (Debian). I've searched and apparently ...
1
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1answer
98 views

Right way to start VirtualBox with shared folders mounted

Need of commandline to start VM with access to shared folder. Now if I run /usr/lib/virtualbox/VirtualBox --comment "win" --startvm "c252555c-bla-bla" I get VM running but shared folders not ...
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2answers
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How to mount ext3,ext4 sitting on VDI VirtualBox HDD?

How to mount ext3, ext4 partition sitting on "Fixed-Size VDI" VirtualBox HardDisk ? To be more specific, I ma interested in case when VM is not running.
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“mount: / is busy” when trying to mount as read-only so that I can run zerofree

I am trying to run zerofree on Ubuntu 11.04 so that I can compact the VirtualBox vdi image using: VBoxManage modifyhd Ubuntu.vdi --compact In order to run zerofree the disk image has be mounted as ...