Mounting failed with the error no such device virtualbox

You’re using share folders, so you need to install VirtualBox Guest Additions inside your virtual machine to support that feature.

Vagrant

If you’re using Vagrant (OS X: brew cask install vagrant), run:

vagrant plugin install vagrant-vbguest
vagrant vbguest

In case it fails, check the logs, e.g.

vagrant ssh -c "cat /var/log/vboxadd-install.log"

Maybe you’re just missing the kernel header files.

VM

Inside VM, you should install Guest Additions, kernel headers and start the service and double check if kernel extension is running.

This depends on the guest operating system, so here are brief steps:

1. Install kernel include headers (required by VBoxLinuxAdditions).

   • RHEL: sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install kernel-devel
   • CentOS: sudo yum update && sudo yum -y install kernel-headers kernel-devel

2. Install Guest Additions (this depends on the operating system).

   • Ubuntu: sudo apt-get -y install dkms build-essential linux-headers-$(uname -r) virtualbox-guest-additions-iso

     If you can’t find it, check by aptitude search virtualbox.

   • Debian: sudo apt-get -y install build-essential module-assistant virtualbox-ose-guest-utils

     If you can’t find it, check by dpkg -l | grep virtualbox.

   • manually by downloading the iso file inside VM (e.g. wget) and installing it, e.g.

     1. wget http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/5.0.16/VBoxGuestAdditions_5.0.16.iso -P /tmp
     2. sudo mount -o loop /tmp/VBoxGuestAdditions_5.0.16.iso /mnt

     3. sudo sh -x /mnt/VBoxLinuxAdditions.run # --keep

        Extra debug: cd ~/install && sh -x ./install.sh /mnt/VBoxLinuxAdditions.run

3. Double check that kernel extensions are up and running:

   • sudo modprobe vboxsf

4. Start/restart the service:

   • manually: sudo /opt/VBoxGuestAdditions*/init/vboxadd setup (add sudo sh -x to debug)
   • Debian: sudo /etc/init.d/vboxadd-service start
   • Fedora: sudo /etc/init.d/vboxdrv setup
   • CentOS: sudo service VBoxService start

Building the main Guest Additions module

If above didn’t work, here are more sophisticated steps to fix it. This assumes that you’ve already VBoxGuestAdditions installed (as shown above).

The most common reason why mounting shared folder doesn’t work may related to building Guest Additions module which failed. If in /var/log/vboxadd-install.log you’ve the following error:

The headers for the current running kernel were not found.

this means either you didn’t install kernel sources, or they cannot be found.

If you installed them already as instructed above, run this command:

$ sudo sh -x /opt/VBoxGuestAdditions-5.0.16/init/vboxadd setup 2>&1 | grep KERN
+ KERN_VER=2.6.32-573.18.1.el6.x86_64
+ KERN_DIR=/lib/modules/2.6.32-573.18.1.el6.x86_64/build

So basically vboxadd script is expecting your kernel sources to be available at the following dir:

ls -la /lib/modules/$(uname -r)/build

Check if the kernel dir exists (symbolic link points to the existing folder). If it’s not, please install them to the right folder (e.g. in /usr/src/kernels).

So vboxadd script can enter your kernel source directory and run make kernelrelease, get the value and compare with your current kernel version.

Here is the logic:

KERN_VER=`uname -r`
KERN_DIR="/lib/modules/$KERN_VER/build"
if [ -d "$KERN_DIR" ]; then
    KERN_REL=`make -sC $KERN_DIR --no-print-directory kernelrelease 2>/dev/null || true`
    if [ -z "$KERN_REL" -o "x$KERN_REL" = "x$KERN_VER" ]; then
        return 0
    fi
fi

If the kernel version doesn’t match with the sources, maybe you’ve to upgrade your Linux kernel (in case the sources are newer than your kernel).

CentOS

Try:

vagrant plugin install vagrant-vbguest vagrant vbgues

If won’t work, try the following manual steps for CentOS:

$ sudo yum update
$ sudo yum install kernel-$(uname -r) kernel-devel kernel-headers # or: reinstall
$ rpm -qf /lib/modules/$(uname -r)/build
kernel-2.6.32-573.18.1.el6.x86_64
$ ls -la /lib/modules/$(uname -r)/build
$ sudo reboot # and re-login
$ sudo ln -sv /usr/src/kernels/$(uname -r) /lib/modules/$(uname -r)/build
$ sudo /opt/VBoxGuestAdditions-*/init/vboxadd setup

Getting /sbin/mount.vboxsf: mounting failed with the error: No such device #4

Hi
Getting the following error. Please would you recommend a path to resolution? Thank you

Failed to mount folders in Linux guest. This is usually because
the «vboxsf» file system is not available. Please verify that
the guest additions are properly installed in the guest and
can work properly. The command attempted was:

mount -t vboxsf -o uid= id -u vagrant ,gid= getent group vagrant | cut -d: -f3 vagrant /vagrant
mount -t vboxsf -o uid= id -u vagrant ,gid= id -g vagrant vagrant /vagrant

The error output from the last command was:

stdin: is not a tty
/sbin/mount.vboxsf: mounting failed with the error: No such device

The text was updated successfully, but these errors were encountered:

ran into a similar issue myself.

If you haven’t already, you may need to rebuild the VirtualBox guest additions:

Works first time, but fails afterwards. Specially if you need this to work before shell script.

Went for a plugin:
vagrant vbguest plugin

This may be related to the missing kernel sources in your VM.

So try to install Guest Additions and check the log file for details, e.g. follow these steps and it VBoxLinuxAdditions fails, then check the /var/log/vboxadd-install.log for more details.

Like @esteban-xrow said, just install Vagrant plugin: vagrant-vbguest, which can keep your VirtualBox Guest Additions up to date.

@kiwenlau YES thank you that worked! vagrant plugin install vagrant-vbguest

I was able to resolve this on bento/centos-7.2 by performing the following:

yum update
yum install kernel-headers kernel-devel

Then reboot the vagrant, and run the following
sudo /opt/VBoxGuestAdditions-*/init/vboxadd setup

So I was fighting with this same issue for quite a while. rcvboxadd was complaining that I did not have kernel-headers installed. I am on CentOS 7 with kernel 3.10.0-957.21.2.el7.x86_64 and with just doing a yum install kernel-headers it was installing the latest of 3.10.0-957.21.3.el7.x86_64 which is a little newer and not matching my current kernel. So I erased the headers with yum and explicitly installed the version that matched my kernel. I also had to reinstall gcc. I then installed my specific kernel version of kernel-devel . With these now matching my kernel version, I then ran /usr/sbin/rcvboxadd setup and it finally built everything correctly and started the service up. After that I mounted my HOST folder to my Linux GUEST with: sudo mount -t vboxsf -o rw,uid=1000,gid=1000 REPOS

REPO is the name of the share in the properties of my VM in the Shared Folders section.

I hope this helps someone else out — I could’ve probably just updated my kernel to the already installed version of kernel-headers and kernel-devel — but either way, this small victory is a great way to finish off a Friday.

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Shared folder Mounting failed : No Such Device

by neilghosh » 24. Aug 2010, 20:42

I am running Ubuntu 10.04 on the latest Virtual Box.
I have installed VBoxAdditions and created a shared folder D:dev as the name «dev» in settings

But while mounting inside linux terminal I get following error
please help

Created a folder /home/neil/d

sudo mount.vboxsf dev /home/neil/d

mounting failed with the error : No Such Device

Re: Shared folder Mounting failed : No Such Device

by Sasquatch » 24. Aug 2010, 20:49

Read the Forum Posting Guide before opening a topic.
VirtualBox FAQ: Check this before asking questions.
Online User Manual: A must read if you want to know what we’re talking about.
Howto: Install Linux Guest Additions
Howto: Use Shared Folders on Linux Guest
See the Tutorials and FAQ section at the top of the Forum for more guides.
Try searching the forums first with Google and add the site filter for this forum.
E.g. install guest additions site:forums.virtualbox.org

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Re: Shared folder Mounting failed : No Such Device

by neilghosh » 25. Aug 2010, 11:54

Re: Shared folder Mounting failed : No Such Device

by Martin » 25. Aug 2010, 13:30

Re: Shared folder Mounting failed : No Such Device

by Pyruzan » 25. Aug 2010, 14:30

You should first install guest additions in order to use the shared folders.

And that’s most of the time my problem; getting guest additions to install completely and correctly under some distros such as Fedora or Ubuntu Studio. And of course I have done everything said in «HOWTO: Install Linux Guest Additions» step by step, but I get this message in the log file: » Makefile:23: *** Error: unable to find the sources of your current linux kernel. Specify KERN_DIR= and run Make again.. Stop.»

Any idea how to fix the problem?

Re: Shared folder Mounting failed : No Such Device

by neilghosh » 25. Aug 2010, 20:21

Yes Martin , I tried with «dev» and other names , same error .

Re: Shared folder Mounting failed : No Such Device

by neilghosh » 25. Aug 2010, 20:22

Pyruzan wrote: You should first install guest additions in order to use the shared folders.

And that’s most of the time my problem; getting guest additions to install completely and correctly under some distros such as Fedora or Ubuntu Studio. And of course I have done everything said in «HOWTO: Install Linux Guest Additions» step by step, but I get this message in the log file: » Makefile:23: *** Error: unable to find the sources of your current linux kernel. Specify KERN_DIR= and run Make again.. Stop.»

Any idea how to fix the problem?

Whenever I install guest additions it replaces the same . SO I think it is installed properly

Re: Shared folder Mounting failed : No Such Device

by Pyruzan » 25. Aug 2010, 22:18

What is the output when you run VitualBox GAs in Termianl?

If you got this like me: «Building VirtualBox Guest Additions kernel modules . fail!» then it doesn’t matter how many times you repeat that, neither the visuals and full screen mode nor the shared folders work.

But if that part goes right then there should be no problem.

I myself create two folders on the guest desktop named «Pyruzan» and «Downloads», then I will go to settings of the VM and select my desired 2 shared folders from host and name them «Pyruzan» and «Downloads». Then simply paste these two lines in Terminal and enter:

Code: Select all Expand viewCollapse view sudo mount -t vboxsf -o uid=1000,gid=1000 Pyruzan /home/pyruzan/Desktop/Pyruzan &&
sudo mount -t vboxsf -o uid=1000,gid=1000 Downloads /home/pyruzan/Desktop/Downloads

Piece of cake, but as I said before my problem is to get GAs installed correctly .

Re: Shared folder Mounting failed : No Such Device

by Pyruzan » 26. Aug 2010, 12:35

And finally, I figured out what the problem is.

All these difficulties come up just because this howto: «HOWTO: Install Linux Guest Additions + Xorg config» tells you to go the long painful way instead of easy simple one!

The problem is in the following line:
Code: Select all Expand viewCollapse view sudo apt-get install build-essential linux-headers-generic
where the latest kernel headers that you receive probably don’t match with the version of your current kernel, hence VB GAs’ kernel modules can’t be installed correctly.
Yeah, I know, it says first update your distro, but many users don’t have such a bandwidth to download about 200MB of packages in a couple of minutes!

Here is the easy simple way without the need of updating your whole ubuntu:
first run this command to get your current kernel version:
Code: Select all Expand viewCollapse view uname -r
then this:
Code: Select all Expand viewCollapse view sudo apt-get install linux-headers-`uname -r`
and if needed (probably not):
Code: Select all Expand viewCollapse view sudo apt-get install build-essential

That’s it, you’re all good to go with installing VB GAs without any problem.

And by the way, VirtualBox Rocks, it’s the best out there and also FREE.

Re: Shared folder Mounting failed : No Such Device

by neilghosh » 26. Aug 2010, 18:58

I had to create a new Hard DIsk with new Ubuntu installation because I has some urgent work.
Anyway thanks for your response .Will keep these in mind when I face the issue next time.

Anyway Love Oracle Virtual Box !

Re: Shared folder Mounting failed : No Such Device

by Sasquatch » 28. Aug 2010, 00:04

Read the Forum Posting Guide before opening a topic.
VirtualBox FAQ: Check this before asking questions.
Online User Manual: A must read if you want to know what we’re talking about.
Howto: Install Linux Guest Additions
Howto: Use Shared Folders on Linux Guest
See the Tutorials and FAQ section at the top of the Forum for more guides.
Try searching the forums first with Google and add the site filter for this forum.
E.g. install guest additions site:forums.virtualbox.org

Retired from this Forum since OSSO introduction.

Re: Shared folder Mounting failed : No Such Device

by marciogreison » 18. Nov 2010, 01:58

Hello, I am using as host the seventh and windows as guest Debian lenny, and also had this same problem to access a share, but after examining the problem a little more and with your help, I managed to solve by downloading the headers kernel «linux-headers-*» and reinstalling the «guest additions», now the command: mount-s . vboxsf worked ..

Re: Shared folder Mounting failed : No Such Device

by peab » 18. Nov 2010, 15:15

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Virtualbox VM Ubuntu 18.04 failure mounting shared folder — no such device or address

I am running Virtualbox 5.1.34 — I have many VMs where mounting shared folder is not a problem. My host machine is a very-capable Dell workstation running Centos 7.

I created a VM from ubuntu-18.04.3-desktop-amd64.iso, the install went fine, I mounted the proper GuestAdditions ISO and installed it, it appeared to be successful.

I have created the shared folder in the Virtualbox control panel and corresponding mount point folder on the VM, both named «v-host» (I’ve done this many-many times) I shut down and restarted the VM.

/sbin/mount.vboxsf: mounting failed withe error: No such device or address

I have three Ubuntu 18.04-server VMs (no GUI) that do not have this problem — I installed GuestAdditions, rebooted them and mounting the shared folder works fine.

I also have an Ubuntu 16.04 desktop where shared folder mount works as well. But I can’t get 18.04 to work.

3 Answers 3

Virtualbox 5.1 is too old for modern Linux distributives. It has only support for kernel 4.17. Ubuntu 18.04.3 Desktop has 5.0 kernel.

But you can install 4.15 kernel in any Ubuntu 18.04 from built in repositories. Or install Ubuntu 18.04.1 Desktop and update it (by default kernel did not upgrades for newer versions).

Ubuntu in a VirtualBox Guest VM
Installing guest additions

before installing the Guest Additions
dkms must be installed in the Ubuntu guest OS .

My suspicion is that linux distros with kernel version 5 do not play nice with Virtualbox version 5.1.34. Perhaps they do with Virtualbox 6 but I do not have authorization to upgrade Virtualbox on the system in question.

Ubuntu 16.04 desktop has kernel version 4.15 and has no problem installing guest additions. Ubuntu 18.04 and Mint 19.3, both with kernel version 5, report the same error in /var/log/vboxadd-install.log

It appears that the argument list for a macro has changed.

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Shared folder Mounting failed : No Such Device

by neilghosh » 24. Aug 2010, 20:42

I am running Ubuntu 10.04 on the latest Virtual Box.
I have installed VBoxAdditions and created a shared folder D:dev as the name «dev» in settings

But while mounting inside linux terminal I get following error
please help

Created a folder /home/neil/d

sudo mount.vboxsf dev /home/neil/d

mounting failed with the error : No Such Device

Re: Shared folder Mounting failed : No Such Device

by Sasquatch » 24. Aug 2010, 20:49

Read the Forum Posting Guide before opening a topic.
VirtualBox FAQ: Check this before asking questions.
Online User Manual: A must read if you want to know what we’re talking about.
Howto: Install Linux Guest Additions
Howto: Use Shared Folders on Linux Guest
See the Tutorials and FAQ section at the top of the Forum for more guides.
Try searching the forums first with Google and add the site filter for this forum.
E.g. install guest additions site:forums.virtualbox.org

Retired from this Forum since OSSO introduction.

Re: Shared folder Mounting failed : No Such Device

by neilghosh » 25. Aug 2010, 11:54

Re: Shared folder Mounting failed : No Such Device

by Martin » 25. Aug 2010, 13:30

Re: Shared folder Mounting failed : No Such Device

by Pyruzan » 25. Aug 2010, 14:30

You should first install guest additions in order to use the shared folders.

And that’s most of the time my problem; getting guest additions to install completely and correctly under some distros such as Fedora or Ubuntu Studio. And of course I have done everything said in «HOWTO: Install Linux Guest Additions» step by step, but I get this message in the log file: » Makefile:23: *** Error: unable to find the sources of your current linux kernel. Specify KERN_DIR= and run Make again.. Stop.»

Any idea how to fix the problem?

Re: Shared folder Mounting failed : No Such Device

by neilghosh » 25. Aug 2010, 20:21

Yes Martin , I tried with «dev» and other names , same error .

Re: Shared folder Mounting failed : No Such Device

by neilghosh » 25. Aug 2010, 20:22

Pyruzan wrote: You should first install guest additions in order to use the shared folders.

And that’s most of the time my problem; getting guest additions to install completely and correctly under some distros such as Fedora or Ubuntu Studio. And of course I have done everything said in «HOWTO: Install Linux Guest Additions» step by step, but I get this message in the log file: » Makefile:23: *** Error: unable to find the sources of your current linux kernel. Specify KERN_DIR= and run Make again.. Stop.»

Any idea how to fix the problem?

Whenever I install guest additions it replaces the same . SO I think it is installed properly

Re: Shared folder Mounting failed : No Such Device

by Pyruzan » 25. Aug 2010, 22:18

What is the output when you run VitualBox GAs in Termianl?

If you got this like me: «Building VirtualBox Guest Additions kernel modules . fail!» then it doesn’t matter how many times you repeat that, neither the visuals and full screen mode nor the shared folders work.

But if that part goes right then there should be no problem.

I myself create two folders on the guest desktop named «Pyruzan» and «Downloads», then I will go to settings of the VM and select my desired 2 shared folders from host and name them «Pyruzan» and «Downloads». Then simply paste these two lines in Terminal and enter:

Code: Select all Expand viewCollapse view sudo mount -t vboxsf -o uid=1000,gid=1000 Pyruzan /home/pyruzan/Desktop/Pyruzan &&
sudo mount -t vboxsf -o uid=1000,gid=1000 Downloads /home/pyruzan/Desktop/Downloads

Piece of cake, but as I said before my problem is to get GAs installed correctly .

Re: Shared folder Mounting failed : No Such Device

by Pyruzan » 26. Aug 2010, 12:35

And finally, I figured out what the problem is.

All these difficulties come up just because this howto: «HOWTO: Install Linux Guest Additions + Xorg config» tells you to go the long painful way instead of easy simple one!

The problem is in the following line:
Code: Select all Expand viewCollapse view sudo apt-get install build-essential linux-headers-generic
where the latest kernel headers that you receive probably don’t match with the version of your current kernel, hence VB GAs’ kernel modules can’t be installed correctly.
Yeah, I know, it says first update your distro, but many users don’t have such a bandwidth to download about 200MB of packages in a couple of minutes!

Here is the easy simple way without the need of updating your whole ubuntu:
first run this command to get your current kernel version:
Code: Select all Expand viewCollapse view uname -r
then this:
Code: Select all Expand viewCollapse view sudo apt-get install linux-headers-`uname -r`
and if needed (probably not):
Code: Select all Expand viewCollapse view sudo apt-get install build-essential

That’s it, you’re all good to go with installing VB GAs without any problem.

And by the way, VirtualBox Rocks, it’s the best out there and also FREE.

Re: Shared folder Mounting failed : No Such Device

by neilghosh » 26. Aug 2010, 18:58

I had to create a new Hard DIsk with new Ubuntu installation because I has some urgent work.
Anyway thanks for your response .Will keep these in mind when I face the issue next time.

Anyway Love Oracle Virtual Box !

Re: Shared folder Mounting failed : No Such Device

by Sasquatch » 28. Aug 2010, 00:04

Read the Forum Posting Guide before opening a topic.
VirtualBox FAQ: Check this before asking questions.
Online User Manual: A must read if you want to know what we’re talking about.
Howto: Install Linux Guest Additions
Howto: Use Shared Folders on Linux Guest
See the Tutorials and FAQ section at the top of the Forum for more guides.
Try searching the forums first with Google and add the site filter for this forum.
E.g. install guest additions site:forums.virtualbox.org

Retired from this Forum since OSSO introduction.

Re: Shared folder Mounting failed : No Such Device

by marciogreison » 18. Nov 2010, 01:58

Hello, I am using as host the seventh and windows as guest Debian lenny, and also had this same problem to access a share, but after examining the problem a little more and with your help, I managed to solve by downloading the headers kernel «linux-headers-*» and reinstalling the «guest additions», now the command: mount-s . vboxsf worked ..

Re: Shared folder Mounting failed : No Such Device

by peab » 18. Nov 2010, 15:15

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Update 28 July 2019: An updated version of this guide for Ubuntu Server 18.04 LTS is now available. Feel free to check it out.

Update 23 May 2020: This guide is ALREADY OUTDATED and might no longer work with new versions of Ubuntu and VirtualBox. Please consider switching to the updated guide instead. I will no longer respond to the replies to this gist. Thank you.

Mounting VirtualBox shared folders on Ubuntu Server 16.04 LTS

This guide will walk you through steps on how to setup a VirtualBox shared folder inside your Ubuntu Server guest. Tested on Ubuntu Server 16.04.3 LTS (Xenial Xerus)

Steps:

1. Open VirtualBox

2. Right-click your VM, then click Settings

3. Go to Shared Folders section

4. Add a new shared folder

5. On Add Share prompt, select the Folder Path in your host that you want to be accessible inside your VM.

6. In the Folder Name field, type shared

7. Uncheck Read-only and Auto-mount, and check Make Permanent

8. Start your VM

9. Once your VM is up and running, go to Devices menu -> Insert Guest Additions CD image menu

10. Use the following command to mount the CD:

sudo mount /dev/cdrom /media/cdrom

1. Install dependencies for VirtualBox guest additions:

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install build-essential linux-headers-`uname -r`

1. Run installation script for the guest additions:

sudo /media/cdrom/./VBoxLinuxAdditions.run

1. Reboot VM

sudo shutdown -r now

1. Create «shared» directory in your home

mkdir ~/shared

1. Mount the shared folder from the host to your ~/shared directory

sudo mount -t vboxsf shared ~/shared

1. The host folder should now be accessible inside the VM.

cd ~/shared

Make the mount folder persistent

This directory mount we just made is temporary and it will disappear on next reboot. To make this permanent, we’ll set it so that it will mount our ~/shared directory on system startup

1. Edit fstab file in /etc directory

sudo nano /etc/fstab

1. Add the following line to fstab (separated by tabs) and press Ctrl+O to Save.

shared	/home/<username>/shared	vboxsf	defaults	0	0

1. Edit modules

sudo nano /etc/modules

1. Add the following line to /etc/modules and save

vboxsf

1. Reboot the vm and log-in again

shutdown -r now

1. Go to your home directory and check to see if the file is highlighted in green.

cd ~
ls

If it is then congratulations! You successfully linked the directory within your vm with your host folder.

Bonus:

How to point apache’s web directory to our folder in the host.

1. Remove apache’s old html directory (WARNING! Backup your data if necessary)

sudo rm -rf /var/www/html	

1. Add a symbolic link in its place

sudo ln -s ~/shared /var/www/html

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