Comment 9 for bug 530179

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João Pinto (joaopinto) wrote : Re: [lucid] vboxsf mounts defined on /etc/fstab cause errors on boot

Sensiva,
the fact that the error was not shown is related to the bug Scott was setting the duplicate to.

I am re-opening the bug for the aspect that the filesystem is not mounted and causing an error instead.

Scott,
The mount.vboxfs is provided by the virtualbox-guest-additions package.

The issue here is that the vboxsf file system type depends on the module "vboxfs" kernel module which is only loaded later from /etc/init.d/virtualbox-ose-guest-utils .

Sensiva,
a workaround is to mount the filesystem from /etc/rc.local using:
sudo mount -t vboxsf share mountpoint

I have kept the bug open for mountall just to track the feedback on how should this modular filesystems should be handed from a "mountall" perspective.