VirtualBox whines "(VERR_SUPLIB_SYMLINKS_ARE_NOT_PERMITTED)."

[David Wolfskill]

On Mon, Jan 19, 2015 at 01:28:16PM -0800, Xin Li wrote:
> On 01/19/15 12:47, David Wolfskill wrote:
> ...
> > Failed to open a session for the virtual machines [Vmachine name
> > here]
> > 
> > Failed to loaf VMMRO.r0 (VERR_SUPLIB_SYMLINKS_ARE_NOT_PERMITTED).

[That should have read "load" -- sorry.  dhw]

> [...]
> > So: what must I do in order for VirtualBox to actually work?
> 
> I find it annoying too!  These so called "hardening" validations may
> be useful for e.g. running it as a service but have little value on a
> single user system that one do experiments on.

Indeed.

> I have this custom patch on my own system.  It's probably useful if we
> make a non-default compile time option for the port, too.
> ....

Cool; thanks!  I'll hack a bit.... :-}

Peace,
david
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