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copied!<p>I am pretty certain symlinks can't be created on the shared drive ("shared folder"). Even more impossible with a Windows host machine and a Linux guest.</p> <p>The <strong>host</strong> machines are not aware of the filesystem of the <strong>guests</strong>. A guest machine is a blackbox for the host. You can't say to the host <em>"Well this links to <code>/etc/...</code>"</em> when the host doesn't know where this <code>/etc</code> is :).</p> <p><strong>So in short: unfortunately no.</strong></p> <hr> <p><strong>In some more detail:</strong></p> <p>I would be really happy if I am wrong! It is a major pain in my development process.</p> <p>I tried so many options. By default the filesystem that the <em>"shared folders"</em> use is <code>vboxsf</code>, something if not the same as <code>samba</code> (default network sharing protocol for windows) so:</p> <ol> <li>I tried using <strong>native Windows network sharing</strong> and then mounting the network drive in the guest as the guest and host are on the same network. <strong>The problem was still there</strong>.</li> <li>I tried <strong>running a NFS server on windows</strong> (Hanewin NFS Server) along with SFU/SUA (Windows Services for UNIX) but this has problems with <strong>GIT locks</strong>. Probably other problems as well - it was a while ago and I don't clearly remember</li> <li>I tried the reverse: sharing a directory on the virtual machine to windows. But that is <strong>stupid as all the files will be on the virtual box</strong> and is <strong>reaally slow to access on windows</strong></li> <li>I was being stupid and I though "<em>well let's mount a virtual drive on both windows and linux"</em> - don't try this, corrupts the virtual disk. Something I should have known. </li> </ol> <p>There might be a network sharing protocol other than <code>samba</code> and <code>nfs</code> which will perhaps copy the files whenever "symlink" creation is attempted? I don't know really.</p> <p>However I haven't found one yet and also <em>"locking"</em> seems to to be a task of the file-system itself so I doubt any network protocol (unless having a dedicated registry of some sort for locks) can do this.</p>

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