Okay everyone is missing a basic fact.
mkdir /test - Makes sub directory in current directory.
sudo mkdir /test - Make directory in Root.
So if your shared directory name is shared and you do the following:
mkdir /test
sudo mount -t vboxsf shared /test
It generates this error:
sbin/mount.vboxsf: mounting failed with the error: No such file or directory
Because the directory is in the wrong place! Yes that's what this error is saying. The error is not saying reload the VBOX guest options.
But if you do this:
sudo mkdir ~/test
sudo mount -t vboxsf shared ~/test
Then it works fine.
It really amazes me how many people suggest reloading the Vbox guest additions to solve this error or writing a complex program to solve a directory created in the wrong place.
