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Mount host drive in "Oracle Developer Days" VM

MarwimAug 13 2010 — edited Aug 13 2010
Hello,

I usually work only with Windows and I'm not familiar with Linux, but I found that the "Oracle Developer Days" VM might be a good idea to play with Apex etc. on my notebook.

My problem is, that I would like to mount a folder at a host HD to exchange data like scripts. Mounting should be no problem using a shared folder (http://www.virtualbox.org/manual/ch04.html#sharedfolders) and
In a Linux guest, use the following command:
mount -t vboxsf [-o OPTIONS] sharename mountpoint
To mount a shared folder during boot, add the following entry to /etc/fstab:
sharename   mountpoint   vboxsf   defaults  0   0
But when I try to enter this at the console I get
mount: only root can do that
If I try sudo - i I get
Sorry, user oracle is not allowed to execute '/bin/bash' as root 
on localhost.localdomain
And of course I cannot edit fstab as oracle.

How can I either edit fstab or mount the drive?

Regards
Marcus
This post has been answered by Sebastian Solbach -Database Community-Oracle on Aug 13 2010
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