title: Creating virtualenv without symlinks
body: <p>I'd like to create a virtualenv which does not use symlinks to the local system, as I wish to bundle the virtualenv (including third party packages) with my application. Is this possible - and if so, how?</p>
  
  <p>For example, on my Mac OS X 10.10.2, any virtualenv I create contains the symlink:</p>
  
  <pre><code>.Python -&gt; /System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/Python
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>If I create my virtualenv directly on a network server share with <code>--always-copy</code> I get an error:</p>
  
  <pre><code>$ virtualenv --always-copy python2.7.9_win7-64_stalker0.2.13
  New python executable in python2.7.9_win7-64_stalker0.2.13/bin/python
  Traceback (most recent call last):
    File "/usr/local/bin/virtualenv", line 11, in &lt;module&gt;
      sys.exit(main())
    File "/Library/Python/2.7/site-packages/virtualenv.py", line 825, in main
      symlink=options.symlink)
    File "/Library/Python/2.7/site-packages/virtualenv.py", line 985, in create_environment
      site_packages=site_packages, clear=clear, symlink=symlink))
    File "/Library/Python/2.7/site-packages/virtualenv.py", line 1374, in install_python
      symlink)
    File "/Library/Python/2.7/site-packages/virtualenv.py", line 482, in copyfile
      copyfileordir(src, dest, symlink)
    File "/Library/Python/2.7/site-packages/virtualenv.py", line 456, in copyfileordir
      shutil.copy2(src, dest)
    File "/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/shutil.py", line 131, in copy2
      copystat(src, dst)
    File "/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/shutil.py", line 103, in copystat
      os.chflags(dst, st.st_flags)
  OSError: [Errno 22] Invalid argument: 'python2.7.9_win7-64_stalker0.2.13/.Python'
  </code></pre>