`chmod` silently fails inside VM

[XedinUnknown]

`chmod` silently fails inside VM

[r8]

Yes, as far as I know, that's a limitation of Virtualbox. Because of the way it works with shared folders.

But you can invoke your script passing its name to shell executable. So you could run your script not using simple ./install.sh, but using bash install.sh command

[XedinUnknown]

Ok, apparently it's impossible by design to change permissions on shared (i.e. mounted) folders. So, how can I execute a script in the shared directory without making all mounted files executable? Is this possible at all?

[dubaaron]

Is this a limitation of Virtualbox, no matter what synced folder provider it's using (e.g., SMB, NFS, Rsync, etc)? Or only with the default "VirtualBox" provider? @r8

PS, thanks for the reminder about that handy workaround.

[r8]

That's 100% limitation of Virtualbox shared folders.

I think Rsync should work fine (but I can't tell for sure without trying)

It might work with NFS, but NFS has own caveats (for example root squashing)