VirtualBox: issue with symlinks in shared folders [closed]
It works!
On Windows by default only administrators can create symlinks. When I start VirtualBox as administrator, I can create symlinks without any problems.
In order to be able to create symlinks without starting the VB as admin, you need to set this permission for your user/usergroup. Here is a short how-to.
The only problem is -- I have not found a way to permit creating of symlinks to admin-users. I don't know, whether it's possible.
From the documentation:
Starting with version 4.0, VirtualBox shared folders also support symbolic links (symlinks), under the following conditions:
- The host operating system must support symlinks (i.e. a Mac, Linux or Solaris host is required).
- Currently only Linux and Solaris Guest Additions support symlinks.
Since your host is Windows, symlinks are not supported.