VirtualBox

Ticket #1224 (new defect)

Opened 6 months ago

Last modified 2 months ago

Can't create files in share

Reported by: liquidat Assigned to:
Priority: critical Component: shared folders
Version: VirtualBox 1.5.6 Keywords: permission denied share data loss
Cc: Guest type: other
Host type: other

Description

When I create a share I am able to modify and also to delete files without any problem. However, when I try to create a share it fails due to insufficient rights:

Cannot create regular file 'fsda': Permmission denied.

This even happens when I try to create a file as root. The mount options are not the problem, 'mount' says the share is mounted rw.

The problem here is that some programs save files via deletion and re-creation. While that behaviour is nuts enough it makes the program unusable and makes it likely that other users might loose data!

Change History

02/26/08 16:51:36 changed by sandervl73

Not enough information. Which host, which guest?

03/08/08 17:22:15 changed by dougb95@gmail.com

I'm not the original poster, but I'm seeing the same issue -- there seem to be a couple here ...

I'm using Virtualbox 1.5.6 on Vista Business x64. My guest OS is Fedora 8 (Linux 2.6). I created a shared folder through the Virtualbox GUI and mounted it in the guest OS using "mount -t vboxsf -ouid=500,gid=500 <sharename> /media/myshare"

I could edit existing files with emacs as user 500, but I couldn't create anything. I would get the same Permission:denied messag as above. I su'd to root, and tried to do the same, and I got the following error in /var/log/messages after executing "touch blah" in the shared folder: "setroubleshoot: SELinux is preventing touch (unlabeled_t) to "associate" to blah (unlabeled_t)" After disabling SELinux, this message went away, and root was able to create files again. I logged back in as myself -- uid 500 -- and I am still not able to create files. I just get the permission denied error.

Hope that's helpful ...

07/10/08 10:01:40 changed by frank

  • owner changed.
  • component changed from other to shared folders.

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