Where does this symlink point to

symlinkvirtualization

The weirdest thing.

$ ls -al                                        ~/vm/win_8_1.pvm/Windows Disks 
total 8
drwxr-xr-x   3 zoo  staff  102 Nov 22 14:04 .
drwx--x--x@ 15 zoo  staff  510 Nov 22 16:57 ..
lrwxr-xr-x   1 zoo  staff   10 Nov 22 14:04 C -> /Volumes/C
$ readlink C                                    ~/vm/win_8_1.pvm/Windows Disks 
/Volumes/C
$ ls -al /Volumes                               ~/vm/win_8_1.pvm/Windows Disks 
total 8
drwxrwxrwt@  3 root  admin   102 Nov 22 14:04 .
drwxr-xr-x  29 root  wheel  1054 Nov  2 15:07 ..
lrwxr-xr-x   1 root  admin     1 Nov 22 12:49 MacSSD -> /
$                                               ~/vm/win_8_1.pvm/Windows Disks

Where the heck is ~/vm/win_8_1.pvm/Windows Disks/C pointing to??

Best Answer

It's pointing to the mounted system volume C (visible on the desktop see below) of your virtual Windows 8.1 machine. If you shut down the VM or disable Share Windows afterwards, the link still resides there.

C

To make C visible again and your Mac secure (Windows mustn't screw the Mac volume) adjust the settings like in the picture below:

settings

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