symlink Protocol Error

[Jerome-Fraissinet]

symlink Protocol Error

[purnesh42H]

The error sometimes return after you shutdown the VM and restart or still persists even after having above. Basically you need to again tell VirtualBox to enable symlinks. Here's the complete solution

Obviously have this in your vagrant file, as suggested above

config.vm.provider "virtualbox" do |v|
v.customize ["setextradata", :id, "VBoxInternal2/SharedFoldersEnableSymlinksCreate/Folder_Name", "1"]
end

I recommended comment out any sync folder and let default ./(at host) synced at /vagrant(at guest). This will make sure your shared folder(Folder_Name) name is always vagrant as mentioned here https://www.vagrantup.com/docs/synced-folders/. Also, you won't face issues with ssh

If the symlink protocol error returns after restart or still persists run

VBoxManage setextradata "VM_Name" VBoxInternal2/SharedFoldersEnableSymlinksCreate/Folder_Name 1

vagrant halt
vagrant up

vagrant ssh

Usually, VBoxManagee is located at C:\Program Files\Oracle\VirtualBox\

Verify working of symlink by going to /vagrant and running

touch test.txt && ln -s test.txt test1.txt

PS: I have tried this on Windows Home which has limited accessibility to security settings