[ open-vm-tools-Tracker-3527672 ] Symlink in Linux guest

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Tracker item #3527672, was opened at 2012-05-17 12:32
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Submitted By: John Peterson (johnpeterson)
Assigned to: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody)
Summary: Symlink in Linux guest

Initial Comment:
Which guests support symlinks in a Windows 7 VMware Workstation host NTFS share?

This artifact https://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=2531303&group_id=204462&atid=989708 seems to say that Gentoo guests support "ln -s".

In Ubuntu the operation
cd /mnt/hgfs/shared; touch foo; ln -snf foo fum
return
ln: failed to create symbolic link `fum': Permission denied
and if
sharedFolder0.followSymlinks = "FALSE" (in .vmx)
it returns
ln: failed to create symbolic link `fum': Operation not supported

# cat /etc/issue
Ubuntu 12.04 LTS \n \l
# sudo dpkg -s open-vm-tools
Version: 2011.12.20-562307-0ubuntu1
VMware Workstation 8.0.2 build-591240

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>Comment By: John Peterson (johnpeterson)
Date: 2012-05-17 17:34

Message:
Can it be patched in modules/linux/vmhgfs/inode.c:Hgfs*Symlink* or does it
also require a patch for vmware-vmx.exe?

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Comment By: Steve (lousybrit)
Date: 2012-05-17 17:12

Message:
Hi John,

Currently for Windows hosts symlinks are not supported. We currently don't
have plans to add it either.

Only supported on Linux/OS X hosts.

Sorry.
Steve

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Comment By: John Peterson (johnpeterson)
Date: 2012-05-17 12:35

Message:
The share is mounted with
mount -t vmhgfs .host:/ /mnt/hgfs

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