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How to mount a VirtualBox shared folder when the Guest OS boots

Problem

While using VirtualBox's Guest Additions to mount shared folders provides a seamless way to mount shared folders, there are also disadvantages.

• Shared folders will always mount in /media/sf_(share name) unless specified using through vbox drivers in the guest OS
• Mounting does not happen at boot-time. Applications that require paths at boot will not be able to access the shared folder even after it is mounted - such as Docker.

Solution

Instead of relying on Guest Additions, if you have sudo permissions, shared folders can be mounted at boot-time using fstab. Using this approach allows

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memuse measures unique physical total memory taken by a process and its children, ignoring duplicate copy-on-write pages and shared memory.

This is a solution for http://serverfault.com/questions/676335/how-measure-memory-without-copy-on-write-pages

It's a quick and dirty utility, but feel free to fork & improve.

Example:

~ » sudo ./memuse.py 15897                                                                                                                         eugene@eugene-thinkpad

PID Commandline Frames (+unique) VMEM

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kubectl get pods | grep Evicted | awk '{print $1}' | xargs kubectl delete pod