How to follow soft links (win 10 quest side) for links which are defined in the linux host
Posted: 31. Mar 2019, 19:06
Hello.
The host is running opensuse 42.3 ( and soon leap 15.1 )
On the linux root files system side there is a main folder for some windows vm ( XP, WIN7, WIN10 ) and a main folder folder for some linux vm ( opensuse 13.2, leap 42.2, 42.3, 15.0 )
My question is about the guest win 10 vm.
The main folder is named and for my question the guest vm folder is
The VM have a folder organized like that :
To run faster as possible, the main folder 'virtual_WIN' is on a SSD disk.
Because the ssd disk have limited space, I would like to use soft link for the shared folders.
To do so i would like to create a secondary main linux folder like
With the same organization :
And put all the corresponding stuff there.
So I can now remove these folders from the 'virtual_WIN' folder
Then add soft links to the stuff to get :
It seems that is is not working.
Any help is welcome
The host is running opensuse 42.3 ( and soon leap 15.1 )
On the linux root files system side there is a main folder for some windows vm ( XP, WIN7, WIN10 ) and a main folder folder for some linux vm ( opensuse 13.2, leap 42.2, 42.3, 15.0 )
My question is about the guest win 10 vm.
The main folder is named
Code: Select all
/virtual_WINCode: Select all
WIN10_G755VW_2019Code: Select all
/virtual_WIN/WIN10_G755VW_2019
/virtual_WIN/WIN10_G755VW_2019/CURRENT_CONFIG
/virtual_WIN/WIN10_G755VW_2019/PREVIOUS_CONFIG
/virtual_WIN/WIN10_G755VW_2019/SHARED_FOLDERS/win_echange
/virtual_WIN/WIN10_G755VW_2019/SHARED_FOLDERS/win_temp
/virtual_WIN/WIN10_G755VW_2019/SHARED_FOLDERS/win_work
/virtual_WIN/WIN10_G755VW_2019/SNAPSHOTS
/virtual_WIN/WIN10_G755VW_2019/VDI
Because the ssd disk have limited space, I would like to use soft link for the shared folders.
To do so i would like to create a secondary main linux folder like
Code: Select all
/virtual_src_WINCode: Select all
/virtual_src_WIN/WIN10_G755VW_2019/SHARED_FOLDERS/win_echange
/virtual_src_WIN/WIN10_G755VW_2019/SHARED_FOLDERS/win_temp
/virtual_src_WIN/WIN10_G755VW_2019/SHARED_FOLDERS/win_work
/virtual_src_WIN/WIN10_G755VW_2019/SNAPSHOTS
So I can now remove these folders from the 'virtual_WIN' folder
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/virtual_WIN/WIN10_G755VW_2019
/virtual_WIN/WIN10_G755VW_2019/CURRENT_CONFIG
/virtual_WIN/WIN10_G755VW_2019/PREVIOUS_CONFIG
/virtual_WIN/WIN10_G755VW_2019/
/virtual_WIN/WIN10_G755VW_2019/
/virtual_WIN/WIN10_G755VW_2019/
/virtual_WIN/WIN10_G755VW_2019/
/virtual_WIN/WIN10_G755VW_2019/VDI
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/virtual_WIN/WIN10_G755VW_2019
/virtual_WIN/WIN10_G755VW_2019/CURRENT_CONFIG
/virtual_WIN/WIN10_G755VW_2019/PREVIOUS_CONFIG
/virtual_WIN/WIN10_G755VW_2019/[b][i]SHARED_FOLDERS[/i][/b]
/virtual_WIN/WIN10_G755VW_2019/[b][i]SNAPSHOTS[/i][/b]
/virtual_WIN/WIN10_G755VW_2019/VDI
Any help is welcome