Xcode & shared Folders

LazarusLong · Jul 23, 2014

I am running Mac OS X 10.6.8 and created a 10.8.5 VM, primarily for the purpose of running Xcode 5.

I've read advice that the VM hard disk should only hold the OS, shared folders on the host should be used to store user data because if the VM is corrupted, I could lose everything in the virtual HD.

I'm having problems with this - shared folders aren't reliable. Xcode fails to run from a shared volume, but it works ok (if slowly) from the VM. Copying large numbers of files fails also. Copying xcode.app to the VM fails, but copying the original .dmg to the VM and then extracting is ok. zip archives are ok. If I need to copy large numbers of files, I have to zip them on the host, copy the zip file, then unzip in the VM.

GC_YVR · Jul 23, 2014

Because the advice is not that great. Ideally you should run a versioning system and check in your code before each build, so you can avoid using the Shared Folder.. because honestly shared folders degrade your performance.

LazarusLong said:
I am running Mac OS X 10.6.8 and created a 10.8.5 VM, primarily for the purpose of running Xcode 5.

I've read advice that the VM hard disk should only hold the OS, shared folders on the host should be used to store user data because if the VM is corrupted, I could lose everything in the virtual HD.

I'm having problems with this - shared folders aren't reliable. Xcode fails to run from a shared volume, but it works ok (if slowly) from the VM. Copying large numbers of files fails also. Copying xcode.app to the VM fails, but copying the original .dmg to the VM and then extracting is ok. zip archives are ok. If I need to copy large numbers of files, I have to zip them on the host, copy the zip file, then unzip in the VM.

LazarusLong · Jul 24, 2014

GC_YVR said:
Because the advice is not that great. Ideally you should run a versioning system and check in your code before each build, so you can avoid using the Shared Folder.. because honestly shared folders degrade your performance.

Probably true, but why the problems with the shared folders? Is this a known issue? I am having problems with accessing/copying large number of files. The problems aren't limited to Xcode.