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VM; "Mount: bad usage"

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The task is to open a vehicle repair manual which is a .OVA file l inside a virtual machine.
The process of using Virtual Box was not successful. While searching for a solution, I was convinced to learn how to use KVM instead.
Many YouTube and Ask Ubuntu posts have been studied. So far, I have been successful in creating a VM and using virt-manager I have opened Ubuntu 22.04 inside the VM.

The next process is to access the .OVA file that is located in the host machine (ASUS laptop running 18.04LTS).
I took notice of two posts that said to use in terminal:
Code:

sudo mount -t 9p -o trans=virtio /VMShare Shared
Where "VMShare" is the source folder in the host and "Shared" is the VM's destination file. The setup steps within virt-manager that named these files involved a 3rd file name that leaves me questioning the correctness of this.

The result is:
Code:

mount: bad usage

'Try mount --help' for more info

I have doubled back through the process of setting this up and checked the file names as well as the code text used in terminal. I still get the same result. The mount help does not point me to a solution.

Thoughts, analysis, suggestions?

Thank you for reading this post.

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