How do you mount a Virtualbox shared folder? Group or permissions issue?

[Nicholas Papadonis]

Has anyone tested FreeBSD inclusive VirtualBox drivers with VirtualBox
6.0?  I looked on the manual page, however it is referencing Sun
Microsystems.  Therefore I'm considering this manual page about 10 years
outdated.

https://www.freebsd.org/doc/handbook/virtualization-guest-virtualbox.html

Thank you

On Wed, Nov 6, 2019 at 12:40 AM Nicholas Papadonis <
nick.papadonis.ml at gmail.com> wrote:

> Does anyone know the procedure for a non-root user to gain access to
> Virtualbox shared folders?
>
> This was fairly straightforward in Debian, however I'm having challenges
> with FreeBSD.  It looks like a group and permissions issue.  In Debian, I
> simply created a group "vboxsf", added my unprivileged user to it, chgrp
> the mount folder and then mounted.  I tried this in FreeBSD I used this
> procedure, however the group gets changed on the folder to "wheel" after
> mounting the shared folder.
>
> Your guidance appreciated.
>
> $ mkdir /mnt/srcr
>
> $ ls -ld /mnt/srcr
> drwxr-xr-x  2 root  vboxsf  512 Nov  6 00:03 /mnt/srcr
>
> $ sudo mount -t vboxvfs Source /mnt/srcr
>
> $ ls -ld /mnt/srcr
> drwxr-xr-x  1 root  wheel  576 Oct 14 21:45 /mnt/srcr
>
> $ whoami
> np
> $ pwd
> /mnt/srcr
> $ ls /mnt/src
> drwx------  10 root  wheel  320 Oct 14 21:35 X/
> $ ls /mnt/src/X
> ls: X/: Permission denied
>
>