When mounting a shared drive in VirtualBox 4.3.10, got he following error in Linux box: sudo mount -t vboxsf E_DRIVE vbox mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on E_DRIVE, missing codepage or helper program, or other error (for several filesystems (e.g. nfs, cifs) you might need a /sbin/mount.<type> helper program) In some cases useful info is found in syslog - try dmesg | tail or so This is caused by wrong symbolic link, to fix it do: ~$ sudo ln -sf /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/VBoxGuestAdditions/mount.vboxsf /sbin/mount.vboxsf References: http://superuser.com/questions/736024/cannot-share-host-directory-with-virtualbox-guest-mint-16-64-bit