﻿id	summary	reporter	owner	description	type	status	component	version	resolution	keywords	cc	guest	host
17491	VirtualBox 5.2.6: Can't mount shared folder on Linux guest if shared folder is a symlink	Jonas Almroth		"We have provisioning scripts for the VM:s on an NFS share, and create symlinks to folders on this share that we use as shared folders.

This used to work before upgrading VirtualBox from the very stable version 5.0.32. After upgrading to VirtualBox 5.2.x, mounting stopped working on Linux guests but still work great on Windows guests.

We tried Guest Additions 5.0.40, 5.1.30 and all 5.2.x versions with the same result:

  $ sudo mkdir -p /mnt/shared

  $ sudo mount.vboxsf shared /mnt/shared

  mount.vboxsf: mounting failed with the error: Invalid argument

When instead creating a local folder, the same commands execute without error."	defect	closed	shared folders	VirtualBox 5.2.6	fixed	symlink, shared folder, mount error		Linux	Linux
