Problem with Visual Studio compile on shared folder

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neville9763
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Problem with Visual Studio compile on shared folder

Post by neville9763 »

Hi All,

I am unable to successfully compile using Visual Studio 2010 on a GA shared folder. It appears to be some weird (unidentifiable) permissions issue.

My setup is:

a) Virtualbox - 4.3.12
b) Host - Macbook with OS X 10.8.5, HD partition used as a GA shared folder, encrypted with Truecrypt 7.1a
c) Guest - MS Vista Home Premium 2007 SP1, with Visual Studio 2010, with permanent, non read-only shared GA folder enabled.

With the above setup, I can:

a) Copy, read, amend and write files to the shared folder, using Windows Explorer and Notepad.
b) Compile successfully with VS 2010 when VS solution is kept on local HD (C:\) folders

I cannot:

a) Compile successfully with VS 2010 when VS solution is placed on shared folder. A number of errors are generated, which looks like permissions for certain types of writes (e.g. temp build files) to files, fails.

I have checked permission of shared folder on Macbook and all groups etc have 'rwx' permissions. Truecrypt ignores owners permissions, so this is not a problem.

This seems to be a problem specific to VS 2010.

WIndows Explorer does show shared folder as read-only and I cannot uncheck this option on the Properties dialog box.

Anyone have any ideas about what the solution may be, or how I can try to resolve this?

TIA
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Re: Problem with Visual Studio compile on shared folder

Post by noteirak »

GA Shared Folders are NOT a full implementation of file share, so things will break. It is only a mean to easily access files from host to guest, no use it as a workspace location for dev programs.
Use a real network share instead.
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