Correct way to setup Virtualbox 4.3 to use symlinks on guest (for meteor)

Question

I use Windows 8 and installed Virtualbox so i can access to a Linux (Ubuntu) System.

The most i still did to do this - so at this moment i have a working Virtualbox

Answer 1

I made a development vm with setup and run scripts.

https://github.com/gfk-ba/meteor-dev-vm

Just put your meteor app in the app directory and follow the instructions in the readme.md

Answer 2

Guessing you were using Virtualbox version after 4.0, please:

1. Enable symlinks VBoxManage.exe setextradata YOUR_VM VBoxInternal2/SharedFoldersEnableSymlinksCreate/YOUR_SHARED_FOLDER 1
2. Run VirtualBox 'as admininstrator' on Windows.

Replace the YOUR_VM and YOUR_SHARED_FOLDER with your own value. You can check the value via VBoxManage.exe getextradata YOUR_VM enumerate

VirtualBox enabled symbolic for shared folder since 4.0, it's Windows permissions blocking you. You can either enable the permission for user or simply run VirtualBox as an administrator.

Please to refer the Virtualbox documentation:

Doc updated, please refer to the doc Shared Folders:

Starting with version 4.0, VirtualBox shared folders also support symbolic links (symlinks), under the following conditions:

The host operating system must support symlinks (i.e. a Mac, Linux or Solaris host is required).

Currently only Linux and Solaris Guest Additions support symlinks.