Can't create a valid symlink under VMWare HGFS

Posted by Alexander Gladysh on Super User See other posts from Super User or by Alexander Gladysh
Published on 2010-12-28T15:17:17Z Indexed on 2010/12/28 15:56 UTC
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Host: OS X 10.6.5 VMWare Fusion: 3.1.2 Guest: Ubuntu x86 10.10

$ uname -a
Linux ubuntu 2.6.35-24-generic #42-Ubuntu SMP Thu Dec 2 01:41:57 UTC 2010 i686 GNU/Linux

I can not create a symlink, readable from the Guest OS anywhere in the directory, mounted with hgfs:

/mnt/hgfs/projects/tmp$ touch aaa
/mnt/hgfs/projects/tmp$ ln -s aaa bbb
/mnt/hgfs/projects/tmp$ less bbb 
bbb: No such file or directory
/mnt/hgfs/projects/tmp$ ls -la
total 6
drwxr-xr-x 1 501 users  136 2010-12-28 18:12 .
drwxr-xr-x 1 501 users 8602 2010-12-28 18:12 ..
-rw-r--r-- 1 501 users    0 2010-12-28 18:12 aaa
lrwxr-xr-x 1 501 users    3 2010-12-28 18:12 bbb -> aaa
/mnt/hgfs/projects/tmp$ readlink bbb
aaa

The same symlink is perfectly accessible in OS X host.

Is there a workaround for this?

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