I am running xubuntu 14.04 as guest in VirtualBox in a Windows 8 host. To keep my documents synchronized, I am using a virtualbox shared folder. However, when running any hdevtools command in the shared directory, I get the error messge "hdevtools: bind: permission denied (Operation not permitted)". The given file path can be any string and the message appears.

permissions info:
hdevtools binary is chowned by my user.
shared folder is chowned by root with group vboxsf, which my user is a member of.

Running hdevtools in any standard directory works as expected.