Opened 8 years ago
Closed 7 years ago
#15945 closed defect (duplicate)
symlink in shared folder
| Reported by: | vDev | Owned by: | |
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| Component: | guest additions | Version: | VirtualBox 5.1.6 |
| Keywords: | Cc: | ||
| Guest type: | Linux | Host type: | Mac OS X |
Description
I have a Linux guest VM on a Mac OS X host on VirtualBox 5.1.4. A nagging issue is the inability to create symlink on the shared folder.
~/macshared$ ln -s file symlinkfile ln: creating symbolic link `symlinkfile': Operation not permitted
I have followed other posts, with the following recommendation but it does not help.
VBoxManage setextradata VM_NAME VBoxInternal2/SharedFoldersEnableSymlinksCreate/SHARE_NAME 1
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Replying to vDev: I'm posting a reply to receive notifications when this defect is updated. I have the same problem using VirtualBox v5.1.14 on a Mac host running ElCapitan. I've tried the VBoxManage... solution noted in this post and elsewhere with no success. I'm trying to backup an open source project from a shared directory on the host. My project uses automake, which requires symbolic links to function properly.