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VirtualBox weirdity: shared folders using symlinks

Posted by mholmes on 10 Jul 2018 in R & D, Activity log, Documentation

After rebuilding my desktop, VirtualBox worked fine except that my Windows VM could not connect to the shared folder I had configured for it. After finding this page, I was able to run this command:

VBoxManage setextradata "Windows 10" VBoxInternal2/SharedFoldersEnableSymlinksCreate/vmShare 1

where "Windows 10" is the name of the VM, and "vmShare" is the name of the share, then restart the VM, and it worked. Obscure thing, so I document it here. The issue is that the path to the shared folder depends on a symlink on my system, since the shared folder lives on an encrypted data drive, not the system drive.

This entry was posted by Martin and filed under R & D, Activity log, Documentation.

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