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I am trying to create a symlink on shared folder and it is failing.
- Host: Windows 7
- Guest: Debian Jessie
- Shared folder created using VirtualBox dialog, automount disabled
Mounting command:
sudo mount -t vboxsf -o uid=1000,gid=1000 vm_shared /home/userName/vm_shared
Now, I cd
to ~/vm_shared
and ls
and mkdir
no problem, they show on host windows machine and guest Linux machine.
When I try to create a symlink in the shared folder to be able to browse another Linux folder from Windows machine using:
sudo ln -s ~/toBeBrowsed ~/vm_shared/targetFolder
I get the following:
ln: failed to create symbolic link ‘~/vm_shared/targetFolder/toBeBrowsed’: Read-only file system
What am I missing?
Update: You can't create a symlink to shared folder that resides on a file system that does not support symlinks.
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check this: https://superuser.com/questions/446362/why-cant-i-create-soft-link-on-vboxsf-file-system hope helps
– Genaro Morales – 2017-07-20T20:35:47.233Thank you for your answer, I read the answer you provided but it just shows the new symlink in the host Windows as a file with extention ".symlink" – Hammadian – 2017-07-25T15:05:25.960