I have had similar problems with Xubuntu 13.10 and VirtualBox 4.2.18. An upgrade to VB 4.3.2 did not solve the problem. The shared folders appear to be present but "ls" hangs.
At one point, I saw ls eventually crash with an out of memory error. Perhaps it was in a recursive loop looking for the shared folder inside the shared folder and going on to infinity? At another point, plain ls failed, but if I invoked ls and passed a filename that I knew was in the shared folder, ls listed the name correctly. I intended to use the virtual machine for some software development for which a shared folder was very important. So I removed the machine and created a new one using Xubuntu 13.04 and VB 4.3.2. Now everything works. Another guy I know working on the same project as me also built a Xubuntu 13.10 system on virtualbox with the same lack of success. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1239384 Title: Unable to access shared folders in Virtualbox from 13.10 guest. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/virtualbox/+bug/1239384/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
