# Unable to update vagrant dev install on Windows

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/unable-to-update-vagrant-dev-install-on-windows/64383
**Category:** Development
**Created:** [2017年六月12日 20:29 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/unable-to-update-vagrant-dev-install-on-windows/64383 "2017-06-12T20:29:33Z")
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### Author: ![epitome](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/3ec8ea/32.png) [@epitome](https://meta.discourse.org/u/epitome)
#### Post date: [2017年十月2日 23:18 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/unable-to-update-vagrant-dev-install-on-windows/64383/9 "2017-10-02T23:18:31Z")

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you need special rights to create symbolic links with windows (inside virtual machines), the right goes by “SeCreateSymbolicLink”.  
Administrator have this right by default. When you run vagrant up/ssh, you need to run it with a user that has this right.

I avoided this error by starting a powershell as administrator (since I didn’t want to bother with granting rights to my user) and discourse is up and running

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