My development environment usually consists of a host machine running Windows and a development Linux “headless” virtual machine. I create and edit files in a Notepad++ text editor and then transfer them over to the Linux VM. Until recently I’ve been using a hypervisor-enabled “shared” folder. However, Windows file system emulators in Linux do not support symbolic links and therefore breaks a lot of applications that rely on them. This prompted me to start looking for a new way to s...
