Ticket #9133 (new defect)
Starting any VM fails with VERR_SUPLIB_SYMLINKS_ARE_NOT_PERMITTED
| Reported by: | jpl | Owned by: | |
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| Priority: | major | Component: | other |
| Version: | VirtualBox 4.0.10 | Keywords: | |
| Cc: | Guest type: | other | |
| Host type: | Linux |
Description
After upgrading from virtualbox-3.2_3.2.12-68302~Debian~squeeze_i386.deb to virtualbox-4.0_4.0.10-72479~Debian~lenny_i386.deb the VMs no longer start. An error is displayed about "symlinks not permitted". In fact /usr is a symlink to another directory (on another disk) in my system, and it must remain so because of requirements wrt partition sizing and encryption. I've never had any other software complain about that, so why doesn't VirtualBox like it (while it was ok in 3.2)?
See also http://www.linux-archive.org/gentoo-user/532273-virtualbox-update-v4-0-8-trouble.html where another user has run into the same problem and got away with a workaround (which I cannot use).
Change History
comment:2 Changed 22 months ago by sadeq
Same problem with 4.1.18. I have symlink for /usr to another partition too and vbox refuse to startvm because of that. FYI, It was working with vbox 3.2.
comment:3 Changed 2 weeks ago by Andy Kennedy
Choosing to keep my $HOME and /opt directories on a separate partition (which is large), I symlinked over the /big/opt /opt. VirtualBox no Likey! Is there a workaround? I'm not doing too well with building VB either on my Slackware machine.
Please advise.
