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Alvis

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Registered: 2018-01-22

Posts: 4

creating symbolic link `xxx': Read-only in virtualbox

Hi

I use the shared folders in Virtualbox, and successfully on the guest.

But when I use ln command in shared folder, I got the error ln: creating symbolic link `xxx': Read-only .

I try to use the command VBoxManage setextradata MY-GUEST-NAME VBoxInternal1/SharedFoldersEnableSymlinksCreate/SHARE_NAME 1 , but it is not working what can I do next.

Host: Arch Linux
Guest: Debian6
virtualbox version: 5.2.6-1

Last edited by Alvis (2018-01-29 07:51:08)

cafe

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From: Brasil

Registered: 2014-03-20

Posts: 165

Re: creating symbolic link `xxx': Read-only in virtualbox

Make sure you have the appropriate package to read and write to the target filesystem. That usually happens with NTFS, so you'll need the ntfs-3g package. That's only a guess, though. Could help you more if you provide more information about the host/guest system and filesystems you are using.