Shared folder symlink is handled as symlink in guest too

[wdolek]

I want to share data with guest, but I also need to create some proper structure of data using symlinks...

- shared folder name "foo"
- shared folder path "D:\shared"
- real path to data "D:\real\foo"
- "mklink /D D:\shared\foo D:\real\foo"
- fstab: "foo /home/me/foo vboxsf defaults,fmode=0755,dmode=0755,uid=1000,gid=1000 0 0"

In Linux guest, I get:
foo -> D:\real\foo

Obviously, this can't work... When I use "/J" to create symlink, I get just "protocol error". Another thing is, I don't want to use VBoxManage to modify all symlinked paths because number of symlinks I need to create is just huge. Is there any other way how to make this work? (Somethink like: "Here you go, share these data, don't care whether it is symlink or not, just present it to guest as regular directory")

[socratis]

From my understanding, the VBox filesystem is a basic interpretation of "a" filesystem, it's not trying to emulate the underlying filesystem and all of its features. That's why links and ACLs and other "exotic" features that you would expect in a normal filesystem don't work over shared folders.