.net - Shared folder on VirtualBox not opening with Visual Studio 2015 (Website project)

Question

I created a windows 10 virtual box vm with Visual studio 2015 enterprise installed.

I tried to open an existing Visual Studio Website project solution in C:sharedfolderprojectdirectory (With symbolic link) or \VBOXSVRmyapp via virtualbox shared folder functionality, but it fails to open saying

"Creation of the virtual directory http://localhost:1849/ failed with the error: Filename: ?UNCVBOXSVRmyapp.vsconfigapplicationhost.config Error: Cannot read configuration file"

If I copy the folder to C:Code it opens without any issues?

Any idea how I can solve this problem? I need it in the shared folder because I am using MAC OS to do javascript dev stuff, so its good to share that folder.

Answer 1

I tried this same solution and get the same result, I did some research and found this link that says that the shared folder shoud not be used as this

https://forums.virtualbox.org/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=62120

Text from the link:

GA Shared Folders are NOT a full implementation of file share, so things will break. It is only a mean to easily access files from host to guest, no use it as a workspace location for dev programs. Use a real network share instead.