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Re: Virtualbox-shared folder debuild Issues

To: Emaad Ahmed Manzoor <emaadmanzoor@xxxxxxxxx>
From: Dan MacNeil <dan@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 16 Feb 2012 10:12:01 -0500
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On 02/16/2012 09:10 AM, Emaad Ahmed Manzoor wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> If the Squeeze VM you've set up to test the package building was made
> with Virtualbox, then you might have issues building the package on a
> shared folder. This is because the shared folder filesystem (vboxsf)
> doesn't allow creation of symlinks; I'm working around that by sharing
> my dev folder as an NFS mount.
> 
> It's fine if the dev folder is not a Virtualbox shared folder though.


Thanks.

I've not setup the VM yet, when I do, it'll be KVM. (today?)

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