# Hgfs shared filesystem in VMWare does not support symlinks

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**Category:** Development\
**Created:** [Décembre 27, 2017, 4:48 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/hgfs-shared-filesystem-in-vmware-does-not-support-symlinks/76797 "2017-12-27T04:48:29Z")\
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**Post date:** [Décembre 27, 2017, 5:45 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/hgfs-shared-filesystem-in-vmware-does-not-support-symlinks/76797/5 "2017-12-27T05:45:36Z")

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I use VMWare, strongly recommend against putting the code in the fused filesystem it will be much slower. I keep it on my ext3 volume inside the vm.

If really really want windows to have access to this stuff for IDE

Option 1:

Set up samba locally and just edit off samba

Option 2:

Use something like [http://docker-sync.io/](http://docker-sync.io/)

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