Re: [vagrant-up] Problems creating symlinks with Windows 7 guest and Centos 6.5 host

[Alvaro Miranda Aguilera]

Hello Pablo,

Can you send your vagrantfile and the generated vmx to sup...@hashicorp.com ?

since the plugin is paid, that's handled by support

Thanks
Alvaro.

On Wed, Jun 17, 2015 at 6:50 AM, Pablo Gosse <pablo...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi all. I'm encountering a problem with Vagrant when trying to create
> symlinks on the guest in the folder that is shared with the host (/vagrant)
> and I'm hoping someone can help. Here's my environment info:
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>
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> Host OS: Windows 7 Enterprise SP 1
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> Guest OS: CentOS release 6.5 (Final) (using the chef/centos-6.5 box)
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> VMWare Workstation: 11.1.0
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> Vagrant: 1.7.2
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> Vagrant Plugins: vagrant-share (1.1.3, system)
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> vagrant-vmware-workstation (3.2.8)
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> I'm trying to create a symlink inside the /vagrant folder such that files
> can be added to it from the Windows host.
>
>
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> In my Vagrantfile I have the following:
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>
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> config.vm.provider "vmware_workstation" do |v|
>
> v.vmx["sharedFolder0.followSymlinks"] = "TRUE"
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> end
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> When I try to create a symlink inside the /vagrant shared folder, this is
> the result:
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> [root@drupal-dev-gossep-local ~]# mkdir /var/derp
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> [root@drupal-dev-gossep-local ~]# ln -s /var/derp /vagrant/derplink
>
> ln: creating symbolic link `/vagrant/derplink': Operation not supported
>
>
>
> Debug output from both vagrant up and vagrant reload show the following:
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> INFO vmx_modify: - Set: sharedFolder0.followSymlinks = 'TRUE'
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> However when I manually inspect the vmx file after the machine is up, I see:
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> sharedfolder0.followsymlinks = "FALSE"
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> Even if I change the vmx file to TRUE, when I reboot the machine it is reset
> to FALSE.
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>
> Can anyone provide any advice?
>
>
> Thanks,
>
> Pablo
>
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