Questions tagged [shared-directory]
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Virtualbox shared folder permissions
I'm using Windows and Virtualbox with RedHat, putting it simple: I've created a shared folder so I can use Eclipse on my Windows OS and do some testing in Linux.
However, I can't access the shared folder with my user, I've logged in with root and…

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accessing "Shared with me" with Colab
I want to get access to the files in the Google Drive's "Shared with me" directory.
In the Colab python notebook the following commands:
import os
from google.colab import drive
drive.mount('/content/drive')
!ls "/content/drive/My Drive"
work well…

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Vagrant Error: Unable to Mount VirtualBox Shared Folders (Guest Additions, vboxsf)
The Issue
I installed Vagrant on Windows 10 so I can create a personal local development environment in a virtual machine. Everything I've read about Vagrant said I can even spin up multiple systems and test communication between them with NAT port…

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Shared folder in VirtualBox for Apache
My host machine is ArchLinux and I'm running Apache in a CentOS guest. I have the vhost configuration and all the site code in a shared folder. To be able to put the vhost configuration in a shared folder I mounted the shared folder as…

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Jenkins wrong volume permissions
I have a virtual machine hosting Oracle Linux where I've installed Docker and created containers using a docker-compose file. I placed the jenkins volume under a shared folder but when starting the docker-compose up I got the following error for…

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How can I create a shared folder from the Windows command line?
As far as I'm aware, this is done via the net command.
However, the help section isn't very helpful, as it only shows me the secondary options and not how to use those.
Suppose I had a folder C:\Share_test
How would I make it shared from the command…

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vmhgfs-fuse at boot with VMware Windows 8.1 host and Ubuntu 16.04 guest
I am using the VMware Player with a Windows 8.1 host and an Ubuntu 16.04 guest and I have a shared folder shared_folder that I want to mount to a specific location at boot: /shared_folder. I can manually do that using the command
vmhgfs-fuse…

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Virtualenv not creating an environment
I installed Virtualenv on Ubuntu 12.04 and was using it to work on a sample project under the unity desktop. I'm using VirtualBox and was having some issues with the unity desktop so changed to the KDE desktop.
I'm now trying to create a new…

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How to make a mount shared in Docker?
I'm trying to start a project in Docker (directly from the Debian distro) in Windows 10 and getting this error:
$ docker compose up -d
[+] Running 0/0
⠋ Container core_php74_1 Creating …

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Share Git repository between Windows VM and Linux host
I work mostly on Linux, but I also have a Windows VM, mostly to run unit tests on Windows.
In Linux I have a Git repository, which is accessible from the Windows VM using a VirtualBox Shared Folder. I don't use Git on Windows, except for our build…

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How to create Virtualbox shared folder between Windows host and Ubuntu18.04 guest machine
I've read docs and all questions about sharing folder from host machine to Virtualbox's guest machine and still can't get it working. In my case the host is Windows machine and guest is Ubuntu18.04 server machine.
What is advised and what I've…

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How to improve slow shared folders in vagrant
On my windows 7 I use:
VirtualBox 5.0.20
Vagrant 1.9.1
vagrant-share (1.1.6, system)
vagrant-winnfsd (1.3.1)
I have an ubuntu vagrant box with some PHP software (piwik) which on a specific CLI command does some processing which involves files.…

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Cannot mount vagrant synced folder with nfs
I managed to setting up my Symfony2 project inside a ubuntu vagrant box. But it takes around 20 seconds to load the website through it's webserver. After some research, i came up with using nfs for the sync folder. Here're my setting from…

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Share a part of google drive on Colab
We are sharing a google drive folder where we put the colab notebooks. Now we need to upload some text files permanently for notebook usage. I do not want to upload files every time I open colab. From what I searched, I had to upload files to google…

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Using a network drive as git repository
So, I've created a git repository on the networked drive:
git init --bare --shared
and that works fine. Then, I clone it to a local drive with
git clone z:/testgit
and that also works fine. Then I add a file, stage, and commit
git stage *
git…

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