VM error on windows hosts - link creation (needed for eZP) in guest does not work

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I think this relates to https://www.virtualbox.org/ticket/10085

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This morning I started Vagrant from an elevated command prompt (vagrant 1.7.4 + vbox 5.0 + win 8.1) - the problem I get when trying to make symlinks is now different - instead of a permission denied error message, I get a symlink created pointing to the wrong folder: it uses windows-style path separators!

vagrant@vagrant-ubuntu-trusty-64:/var/www/summercamp/workshops/ez-performance/web$ ln -s ../ezpublish_legacy/extension extension

vagrant@vagrant-ubuntu-trusty-64:/var/www/summercamp/workshops/ez-performance/web$ ll lrwxrwxrwx 1 vagrant vagrant 0 Aug 28 2015 extension -> ..\ezpublish_legacy\extension

Also mentioned here: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/31830915/symlinks-in-shared-folder-of-virtual-box-with-windows-10-host

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Seems to be fixed in the latest VBox nightly builds - https://www.virtualbox.org/ticket/14434

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Grrr, I installed the nightly build and now I am back to

ln: failed to create symbolic link ‘share’: Protocol error

even though

• I start vagrant from an elevated prompt
• using the "VBoxManage getextradata YOURVMNAME enumerate" command, I see that the vbox config which allows symlinks is set for the 2 shared folders