Vagrant error : Failed to mount folders in Linux guest

Question

I have some issues with Vagrant shared folders, my base system is Ubuntu 13.10 desktop.

I do not understand why I have this error is something that is not right conf

Answer 1

This is 2017. Just in case someone faces the same issue.

For bento/centos-6.7, I was getting same error. That was solved by adding plugin vagrant-vbguest (0.13.0). c:> vagrant plugin install vagrant-vbguest

Box url: http://opscode-vm-bento.s3.amazonaws.com/vagrant/virtualbox/opscode_centos-7.0_chef-provisionerless.box

This centos-7 version was giving me same error

Error:

==> build: Mounting shared folders...
    build: /vagrant => C:/projects/
Vagrant was unable to mount VirtualBox shared folders. This is usually
because the filesystem "vboxsf" is not available. This filesystem is
made available via the VirtualBox Guest Additions and kernel module.
Please verify that these guest additions are properly installed in the
guest. This is not a bug in Vagrant and is usually caused by a faulty
Vagrant box. For context, the command attempted was:

mount -t vboxsf -o uid=1000,gid=1000 vagrant /vagrant

The error output from the command was:

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

My Configuration:

C:\projects>vagrant -v
Vagrant 1.9.1

C:\projects> vboxmanage -v
5.0.10r104061

C:\projects>vagrant plugin list
vagrant-cachier (1.2.1)
vagrant-hostmanager (1.8.5)
vagrant-hosts (2.8.0)
vagrant-omnibus (1.5.0)
vagrant-share (1.1.6, system)
vagrant-vbguest (0.13.0)
vagrant-vbox-snapshot (0.0.10)

Since I already have vagrant-vbguest plugin, it tries to update the VBoxGuestAdditions in centos-7 when it sees different version of VBGuestAdditions are installed in Host 5.0.10 and guest 4.3.20.

I even have checked that symbolic link exists.

[root@build VBoxGuestAdditions]# ls -lrt /usr/lib
lrwxrwxrwx.  1 root root   53 Jan 14 12:06 VBoxGuestAdditions -> /opt/VBoxGuestAdditions-5.0.10/lib/VBoxGuestAdditions
[root@build VBoxGuestAdditions]# mount -t vboxsf -o uid=1000,gid=1000 vagrant /vagrant
/sbin/mount.vboxsf: mounting failed with the error: No such device

This did not work as suggested by user3006381

vagrant ssh
sudo yum -y install kernel-devel
sudo yum -y update
exit
vagrant reload --provision

Solution for centos-7: as given by psychok7 worked

Diabled autoupdate. config.vbguest.auto_update = false Then vagrant destroy --force and vagrant up

Result:

javareport: Guest Additions Version: 4.3.20
javareport: VirtualBox Version: 5.0
==> javareport: Setting hostname...
==> javareport: Configuring and enabling network interfaces...
==> javareport: Mounting shared folders...
javareport: /vagrant => C:/projects

C:\project>