On Sat, 2019-02-09 at 00:38 +0000, Paul Smith wrote:
On Fri, Feb 8, 2019 at 6:56 PM Patrick O'Callaghan
<pocallaghan(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> > With the most recent versions of VirtualBox, the shared folder is not
> > working properly as before.
> >
> > My guest machine is running Windows 7, and the shared folder works
> > fine during some time. However, after some time, the connection to the
> > shared folder gets lost. Are other people experiencing the same? Any
> > workaround?
>
> Not with VB, but I recently spent a week tracking down an issue with
> KVM/QEMU which turned out to be caused by an interaction between my VPN
> and the firewall. Even if you don't have a VPN, start by checking your
> firewall settings, including the zone the guest network is in. If the
> shared folder uses SMB you need to enable that service (and of course
> make sure Samba is running on the host system).
Thanks, Patrick, but if it was something related with the firewall,
the shared folder would never work -- and it works for some time
(several minutes). Do not you agree?
That's very similar to what I experienced, but in fact it did turn out
to be a combination of the firewall and the VPN. See the (long) thread
at:
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@lists.fedoraproject.o...
Of course your case may be completely different, but it's worth
checking your firewall settings just in case.
poc