For security reasons, creating symbolic links in a shared folder is disabled in the guest OS (ticket 10085 and manual 5.3 Shared Folders). If you trust your Linux guest OS, you can enable symlinking from the host OS with the following command: ~ $ VBoxManage setextradata “VM_Name” VBoxInternal2/SharedFoldersEnableSymlinksCreate/Folder_Name 1 Replace VM_Name and Folder_Name with your …
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When using Apache running on a VirtualBox machine with a shared folder, small files such as JavaScript or CSS files might not get updated from the host and served with additional characters at the end. This happens because of a bug in VirtualBox when Apache is using sendfile to improve data transfer. Just turn the …
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After adding the shared folder Websites to fstab by adding the line Websites /var/www vboxsf rw,uid=33,gid=33 0 0 and giving the right permissions, I always got the following error during my virtual Linux Mint boot: keys:Press S to skip mounting or M for manual recovery All I had to do was add vboxsf on a …
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