Fixed by the mentioned documentation ** Changed in: qemu Status: New => Invalid
-- VirtFS mapped symlinks resolved wrong https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/646427 You received this bug notification because you are a member of qemu- devel-ml, which is subscribed to QEMU. Status in QEMU: Invalid Bug description: I tried to map a folder with qemu-kvm qemu-kvm-0.13.0-rc1-3-gc9c2179 (this is v0.13.0-rc1-16667-gc9c2179). I mounted it first in passthrough mode and saw all symlinks as expected. Then I used mapped and noticed that the target of a symlink changed to the actual data inside the linked folder as target instead of the target filename. So for example if you have a file abc with the content "omg, this is important stuff" and a symlink lnkme -> abc then it wiill look inside the kvm with mounted 9p virtio (mapped) like that: lnkme -> omg, this is important stuff