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I have two Arch workstations. I want to be able to run VirtualBox on Machine A, and access the .vdi files stored on a storage drive on Machine B. I'm sure I'm not connecting the two machines properly to do this, but I'm not sure how.
VirtualBox gives me VERR_NET_OPERATION_NOT_SUPPORTED opening image file /run/user/1000/gvfs/sftp:host=arch36,user=nick/home/nick/VirtualBoxVMs/Windows/Windows.vdi.
Originally I browsed to the folder via the "Connect to Server" option in the file manager, specifying SSH on 22, and using the correct login information. I can browse through the file manager to see the files.
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You need to mount the network location and provide the user running VBox write access to it per this discussion
– Ramhound – 2016-01-29T20:53:11.123I'm trying to do that, but I keep getting "mount error(13): Permission Denied". I'm running the command
sudo mount.cifs //192.168.1.65/run/media/nick/Storage /mnt/dest -o user="user",pass="pass"
. I've tried all of the options of sec= to no effect. – coinich – 2016-01-29T22:21:05.683It sounds like the user your using does not have read permissions. You will have to resolve that problem before you can mount the drive. – Ramhound – 2016-01-29T22:24:05.010
Thats the thing, I made sure to chmod 777 the directory to share, and made write permissions yes in smb.conf. I'm not sure of where else to open permissions. – coinich – 2016-01-29T22:46:01.873