title: Vagrant Symbolic Links in shared folder: work only in same dir (Windows host)
body: <p>I run my <code>Vagrant 1.7.4</code> with <code>VirtualBox 5.0.1 r102010</code> on <code>Windows 10</code>, my guest os is <code>Ubuntu 12.04.5</code>.</p>
  
  <p>AFIK, symlinks are not allowed by default in shared folders on Windows.</p>
  
  <p>So I added this instruction to my <code>Vagrantfile</code></p>
  
  <pre><code>config.vm.provider "virtualbox" do |v|
      v.customize ["setextradata", :id,   "VBoxInternal2/SharedFoldersEnableSymlinksCreate/v-root", "1"]
  end
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Also I started Vagrant with Admin privileges.</p>
  
  <p>It helped partially: I can create link in my shared folder root, but only in same dir, for example, I have directory <code>/vagrant/provision</code></p>
  
  <p>And this works:</p>
  
  <p><code>ln -sn provision myLink</code></p>
  
  <p>But when I try to change path, even like this</p>
  
  <p><code>ln -sn ./provision myLink</code></p>
  
  <p>It would not work: broken "red" link is created and it does not lead anywhere.
  The same when I try to create link</p>
  
  <p>This woks as well</p>
  
  <p><code>ln -sn provision ./myLink</code></p>
  
  <p>but not this</p>
  
  <p><code>ln -sn provision ./subdir/myLink</code></p>
  
  <p>Is there a solution for that?</p>
  
  <p><a href="https://i.stack.imgur.com/TRu0I.png" rel="nofollow noreferrer"><img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/TRu0I.png" alt="enter image description here"></a></p>
  
  <p><strong>UPD</strong>: Looks like it is VirtualBox and Windows 10 issue, with last update VB 5.0.3 i can create links, specifying full path for target object.</p>