hungarianhc
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Hi There!
I'm working on a little project, and I'm ALMOST there.. I can't seem to get write access to shared folders from the VM.
Here's how I have it set up. I have a dataset on my FreeNAS box. dataset is owned by user "plex" and group "plex".
I do this so I can mount my Plex Metadata folder on that dataset, as opposed to the jail. I use the trick of having the same user / uid and group / gid from the virtual machine match the account on FreeNAS. That works just fine for my Plex jail.
Now I want to access that same folder from within a VirtualBox VM. So... I have a Virtualbox VM, and I use "add storage" to give the virtualbox jail access to the shared folder. That works just fine. I can read / write data from either directly on FreeNAS or within the jail and it shows up properly on the NAS. Now I need to make that folder accessible from a guest VM. So I use the "Shared Folder" functionality of Virtualbox to have it auto-mount the folder within the VM. That works - I can see files in there directly from the VM. HOWEVER, I can't write... I've tried creating a plex user / group with matching uid / gid in the VM, and this doesn't seem to solve the issue. I'm sure I'm just missing something obvious - would love some help here. THANKS!
I'm working on a little project, and I'm ALMOST there.. I can't seem to get write access to shared folders from the VM.
Here's how I have it set up. I have a dataset on my FreeNAS box. dataset is owned by user "plex" and group "plex".
I do this so I can mount my Plex Metadata folder on that dataset, as opposed to the jail. I use the trick of having the same user / uid and group / gid from the virtual machine match the account on FreeNAS. That works just fine for my Plex jail.
Now I want to access that same folder from within a VirtualBox VM. So... I have a Virtualbox VM, and I use "add storage" to give the virtualbox jail access to the shared folder. That works just fine. I can read / write data from either directly on FreeNAS or within the jail and it shows up properly on the NAS. Now I need to make that folder accessible from a guest VM. So I use the "Shared Folder" functionality of Virtualbox to have it auto-mount the folder within the VM. That works - I can see files in there directly from the VM. HOWEVER, I can't write... I've tried creating a plex user / group with matching uid / gid in the VM, and this doesn't seem to solve the issue. I'm sure I'm just missing something obvious - would love some help here. THANKS!