Nodejs + npm, installing modules on ntfs partition

Question

I have a problem when installing npm modules. NodeJS is installed on Ubuntu 11.10 running on Virtual Box on Windows host. My project files are on NTFS partition (I have to share them with windows). When I try to install some npm module I get an error, and module is not installed. I've found out that problem occurs when npm tries to create symbolic links.

Probably you can not create symlinks on NTFS partition, when I'm installing module "inside" Linux file system, everything works fine.

How can I fix this? I don't want to resolve dependencies manually :/

Answer 1

Try this - http://ahtik.com/blog/2012/08/16/fixing-your-virtualbox-shared-folder-symlink-error/

Works for me!

Basically you set a parameter

VBoxManage setextradata YOURVMNAME VBoxInternal2/SharedFoldersEnableSymlinksCreate/YOURSHAREFOLDERNAME 1

And then run the VM as an administrator....