Symbolic links in shared folders

[Quaid]

Hi all !

Virtualbox 4.0.0 windows host, linux guest.

If I made with windows a simlink from folder c:\Documents to d:\shared_folder\documents... under linux this symlink doesn't works... is not accessible ( red color 0 byte )... linux can't access to c:\Documents. In the past releases this kind of symlink worked.

For testing windows simlinks I used mklink from cmd line and a specific ( awesome ) program like Link Shell Extension (​http://schinagl.priv.at/nt/hardlinkshel ... ml#contact ) that allow making different kinds of links... but nothing working...

[Technologov]

Topic should be changed to "Windows Symbolic links in shared folders"

-Technologov

[Cotton]

The same problem with v4.1.2, and it's working fine in v3.2.12 or before.

This capability is very helpful, I hope it could be got fixed in the future, otherwise I'm gonna stuck along with v3.2.12.

[benb]

This appears to have been fixed somewhere between 4.1.2 and 4.1.6.

[theshowmecanuck]

This issue still exists in 4.1.18.

This really needs to be addressed. Not allowing Windows host symlinks and junctions to be used by the guest creates a nightmare for secure and reasonable administration of the system. If this is not a bug, it is a glaringly huge omission of a very important feature.

[cbsmith]

Just wanted to bump this bug again. This is a big pain. Looking at layering another filesystem ON TOP in order to fix this.

[Frank Mehnert]

All the relevant source code is open-source. Contributions are welcome.