hardlink creation in shared folder is failing

[ejannett]

Hi,

running
VirtualBox 6.0.4 r128413 on Mac (Mojave:10.14.2)
one VM running Oracle Linux 7.6 uek5

I've use the "VBoxManage setextradata VM_NAME VBoxInternal2/SharedFoldersEnableSymlinksCreate/SHARE_NAME 1"
trick to be able to make symlinks
I've added one local directory ad shared folder to the VM

It seem still impossible to create hard link 'Operation not permitted' error is raised

#touch source
#ln source target
ln: failed to create hard link ‘target’ => ‘source’: Operation not permitted

Any hints would be appreciated
regards
EJ

[andyp73]

The shared folders provide a minimal file system to allow exchange of files between the host and guest. With the VBoxManage command you have used you can now create symbolic links (ln -s) but hard links (ln) are not supported.

-Andy.

[ejannett]

Hi,

Thank you for quick reply.
That's too bad . I am (trying to) using the VirtualBox VM as Linux Dev env on top of my Mac system.
What's I am particular blocked by for now is RPM creation as rpmbuild use hardlink.

Thanks anyway
regards
EJ

[mpack]

If you need extra features then you need to create a proper network share, not a GAs shared folder.