[PLUG] Can't see files in Virtualbox shared device

[John Jason Jordan]

On Fri, 23 Mar 2018 22:50:26 -0700
wes <plug at the-wes.com> dijo:

>On Fri, Mar 23, 2018 at 9:47 PM, John Jason Jordan <johnxj at gmx.com>
>wrote:
>> There is probably a really obvious answer that I'm too dense to think
>> of.

>sshfs?

Did you mean that sshfs installed on the host is blocking the guest
from seeing and mounting shared folders? Or did you mean that I should
install sshfs on the guest and use it to access shares on the host?

I have recently become aware that Guest Additions do not appear to be
installed on the guest, or at least, not correctly installed. Since the
initial installation there has been a
folder /media/jjj/VBOXADDITIONS_4.4.46_105129. (4.3.36 is the version of
Virtualbox installed on the host.) At the top of the guest window there
is Devices > Insert Guest Additions CD Image .... Clicking on it brings
up a file browser window with installation programs for Linux, Windows,
Solaris. I selected VboxLinuxAdditions.run, made it executable and
double-clicked on it. That popped up a Mousepad window that said:

The document was not UTF-valid
Please select an encoding below.
( ) Default (UTF-8)  (*) System (UTF-8)  ( ) Other [ISO-8859-14]
Invalid byte sequence in conversion input
[Cancel]  [OK] #[OK] is grayed out

The 8859-14 was grayed out, but I assumed that the run software in
Xubuntu 17.10 had detected that as the byte sequence for the file, so I
selected it, but the OK button remained grayed out. The button with
8859-14 is a drop-down which gives a lot of other encoding formats. I
tried half of them but the [OK] button remained grayed out. 

At this point I am stuck. Any suggestions?