Hi all,
I am the developer for the VMware Shared Folders feature.
This symlink topic is a little thorny when coming to Shared Folders. Image may be NSFW.
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The design of HGFS for Linux VMs is that following symlinks is not allowed by default.
You can only create them. They will have to also only be links contained within the share too.
To modify this behavior and allow the symlinks to be followed on a particular share you will need to edit the VMX file for that particular Share for that VM.
To do that quit out of Fusion and find the location of your VM (note, you might need to select Show Package Contents from the Finder contextual menu of the VM package to see the files).
Edit the file ending in ".vmx" extension.
You will then need to add the following line (modifiying it accordingly to be for the share you want to enable following symlinks change the number 0 to whatever number your share is):
sharedFolder0.followSymlinks = "TRUE"
Save and quit the file editor.
Restart Fusion and the VM.
You should now be able to follow symlinks.
Caveat, though the share following symlinks now will not be allowed to also create symlinks. Create a second share without the follow option to do that if you need more. Again, that was a design decision taken a long time ago.
Hope this helps.
Steve
