fuse-bindings doesn't work on virtualbox

[Tunga37]

OS : xubuntu 18.04
node-version : 8.11.2

this simple example works fine on my host machine

var fuse = require('fuse-bindings')

var mountPath = process.platform !== 'win32' ? './mnt' : 'M:\\'

fuse.mount(mountPath, {
  readdir: function (path, cb) {
    console.log('readdir(%s)', path)
    if (path === '/') return cb(0, ['test'])
    cb(0)
  },
  getattr: function (path, cb) {
    console.log('getattr(%s)', path)
    if (path === '/') {
      cb(0, {
        mtime: new Date(),
        atime: new Date(),
        ctime: new Date(),
        nlink: 1,
        size: 100,
        mode: 16877,
        uid: process.getuid ? process.getuid() : 0,
        gid: process.getgid ? process.getgid() : 0
      })
      return
    }

    if (path === '/test') {
      cb(0, {
        mtime: new Date(),
        atime: new Date(),
        ctime: new Date(),
        nlink: 1,
        size: 12,
        mode: 33188,
        uid: process.getuid ? process.getuid() : 0,
        gid: process.getgid ? process.getgid() : 0
      })
      return
    }

    cb(fuse.ENOENT)
  },
  open: function (path, flags, cb) {
    console.log('open(%s, %d)', path, flags)
    cb(0, 42) // 42 is an fd
  },
  read: function (path, fd, buf, len, pos, cb) {
    console.log('read(%s, %d, %d, %d)', path, fd, len, pos)
    var str = 'hello world\n'.slice(pos, pos + len)
    if (!str) return cb(0)
    buf.write(str)
    return cb(str.length)
  }
}, function (err) {
  if (err) throw err
  console.log('filesystem mounted on ' + mountPath)
})

process.on('SIGINT', function () {
  fuse.unmount(mountPath, function (err) {
    if (err) {
      console.log('filesystem at ' + mountPath + ' not unmounted', err)
    } else {
      console.log('filesystem at ' + mountPath + ' unmounted')
    }
  })
})

but on guest machine (xubuntu 18.04) (when i run the same example) mounted directory is not accessible
https://i.imgur.com/ncvQxT9.png

[piranna]

Maybe a lack of permissions? At least for Docker FUSE needs to be enabled.

[sam0x17]

I'd double check that you have fuse and whatever other dependencies there are installed. It would probably error out during compilation if you didn't but node-gyp can be weird.

[Tunga37]

I have installed fuse, libfuse-dev and I've checked permissions (even started script as root). Also i restarted system after every installation.

I wonder if there are people who use fuse-bindings on virtualbox and they don't have this problem.

[Tunga37]

I solved this issue.
On guest linux system in file /etc/fuse.conf option 'user_allow_other' needs to be turned on and then
we have to mount our filesystem with option 'allow_other' like that

fuse.mount(mountPath, {
  options : ['allow_other'],
  readdir: function (path, cb) { ...