Problems with soft links when sharing folders between OS-X (host) and Ubuntu (guest)

Hi,

Being a Linux user, I recently have to use OS-X and Linux (Ubuntu) in parallel.

I therefore installed Parallels 7 on my MacBook and installed Ubuntu as guest system.

I then created on my Mac a ~/home folder and on the Ubuntu system a link called ~/home as well to the corresponding directory in the "Parallels Shared Folders". After I copied all my data from an external harddisk to the Ubuntu ~/home directory with rsync.

Looking at the result from the MAC side, I had to realize, that unfortunately all soft links where ignored...

The data therefore is pretty much unusable and sharing it between my mac and the linux systems does not work

Is this a bug? Have I done something wrong? Is there another, better way to deal with this problem?

Thanks for your help,

Dietrich

 

Nfs

Could NFS be an option?

How can I setup an NFS server on the host system and access it from the linux virtual machine?

Thanks, Dietrich